Thicket is like holding an evolving work of art in your hands.  Lines of light dance across the screen as sounds echo and reverberate in reaction to your fingers.

Lichtfront creates stunning visual translations of music and sound. Their latest work is a collaboration with Grosse8, another design agency based in Cologne.

While writing 22 Beautiful & Creative iPhone Apps I found many wonderful apps exploring different aspects of user interaction with art, imagery and sound. Experimental Art applications like these are not new, but user access to them and how they interact with them is.

Besides being a crazy cool, sexy piece of hardware, this work incorporates some interesting sound technology as well.

Herwig Weiser built a machine which confronts us with its technical elements in a particularly clear and alienating way. ‘Death Before Disko’ uses an online data stream from space observation and translates it into simple yet spectacular sound and light events. With the proliferation of digital technologies, users have become more and more distant from the physical hardware of their laptop or hi-fi units. ‘Death Before Disko’ aims to return to the foundations of the hardware, and shows how our relationship towards technology is more often emotional than rational.

artist & website: Herwig Weiser – http://www.zgodlocator.org/