I really like the Vivian Caccuri's work and your video is great alex.

Cool installation, good editing, I like how you get the feeling of the watery strangeness back in the image.

organic and random, I like the relationships.

cool video, but come on why would you remix your songs on your ipod with fish? get a real job!

isto eh incrivel, acho fantastico. muito bem feito, mesmo!!

adoro!

this is amazing. I am imagining the possibilities of this, which I assume is the point (some people don't get that.... mr. boudewijn...)
Imagine location aware music, sound effects, movies, et cetera that when played back automatically adjust to the position/rotation of the listener.
The possibibilty of true 3d interaction is immense. A virtual world presented in a 3d space where when a person moves towards a particular area the sound levels move and adjust for the particular image represented on the virtual environment.

I also appreciate the scalability of this concept. From a home theatre prospective imagine walking through your home and having the surround sound automatically adjust so that what sound is meant to be behind you always is. In a museum imagine hearing a narration faintly from across the room about a particular piece then as you turn around and approach the piece the narration volume increases as the others fade away more realistically than by current methods.

These type of projects foster immense possibilities for interacting with virtual enviorments, media, and the world in general.

Of course this opens the possibility to more intrusive advertising...but doesn't everything?

PLEASE keep up the good work!

Great idea, I love how the video is shot too.

Major props for the remix of Assassins by Lightning Bolt by the way - I would love to see the carp interpret some other tracks by LB!

Matt

Altrough i liked what I saw, I don't think that it had anything to do with what i heard. There fere just few moments where vision and sound made symbiosis. Mby I just don't get it.

Anyway - smart devices are loved by everyone. Keep it up.

Genial! Parabems.

If the koi had at least a bit of an organic / natural environment in that tank I might have enjoyed it or find it interesting. The way how it is set up it only reminds me of the misuse of non-human souls for the benefit of human mind.

Hello Vivian,
thanks for your thoughts on this.
I didn't think of ornaments, but a kind of natural (i.e. plants, alges, rock, wood, soil, leaf) material inside their pool. It looks they are being all exposed with no visual/physical protection. No chance to dig their nose into or find spots to lay their eggs. No chance to hide or rest. Just a raw tank. Fish are social beings too. Esp. those species with a high life span like these carps.
The chemistry and food may be perfect, but it's too far from natural - for my opinion. But this might be a culturally influenced thing - as we (here_ Germans) like to keep our fish much different from i.e. folks in Asia or the US.

Since the koi are an important aspect of your installation, I think we should try to optimize the tools for them as much as we optimize the electronic aspects. :)

Greetings

People have been doing this sort of thing for decades. (for your information Mr. Leon Grant Bussinger, everything from theramin to pressure zone, to compression pads under foot, it's been tried)
It all tends to do the same thing.
Sure there are unusual tonal relationships...and?
When are the higgledy-piggledy tonal relationships intelligently manipulated into an expression of insightful observation?
How long until someone makes art out of these noises?
There is a woman in Italy that claims to have captured the "sounds" of the stars.
Using a radio telescope she sampled the static produced by various stars' frequencies.
It sounded like a FAX transmission, UNTIL she added a group of musicians to it. Then it sounded like a group of musicians receiving FAX transmissions.

What's in it for the fish? Do they get to play in the wild after a gig? Do they participate in royalties if say, this invention gets picked up by an amusement park chain? They look like they're in some sort of monastic version of a fish tank. If one of them dies while interpreting, as was implied by a previous commentator, will their royalties go to the rest of the group, or immediate family?
At what school of music did they study?

If I am the copyright holder of a piece of music that gets distorted and rpesented in public, do I call the fish's lawyer or yours?

So much to know about this seemingly simple set-up. ;)

I have no words.. muito legal!
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great project. very creative for lack of a better term

Buen trabajo!

muy bueno!

Very nice. Like wind chimes. Only moist.

hehe, I like the idea that the fish could be(come) aware of the sound/vibration and behave according to the frequency and intensity. Very interesting :)

cool stuff! congrats!

More interesting digital invention since Windows XP ;)

Alex, my man--well done. Will you be uploading that music video you were working on?