sonic starch!
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Via the imminent Sydney Gang Festival’s blog, I discovered this great video of vibrating cornstarch (a “shear-thickening liquid” so I gather), forming persistent holes and “fingers”. Oh, and I think the relevance of this post on Gang Festival’s blog is laterally something to do with a “Ring of Fire” display of model volcanoes tonight (Thursday 10 January 6PM) at Gallery Fourtyfour Darlinghurst (see flier).
The totally amusing video below seems to be a funked-up remix of much drier videos over at revver (though I’m not sure these are the original source).
Makes me think of daydreams I’ve had of using audio-visual-haptic feedback to make audio-visual kinetic sculptures interactive with the sounds of viewers… (one more item on the list of things to try when I have more spare time)
Also reminds me of work with ferroliquids by Sachiko Kodama, Yasushi Miyajima - and others (examples here and here - with a mention of DIY ferroliquids made of [toxic] motor oil and laser printer toner).
Anyway, here’s the vid: