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The data visualization project I chose to explore was Valse Automatique – a wildly interesting project which uses various softwares to analyze and transform live music into an industrial design piece, combining the fields of music, design, performance art, and computer science. The project itself, developed by Studio.Nand in 2010, was made possible by programming a robot using a custom language (KRL) to move in tune with the musical notes as they were processed by the computers and then sculpt a block wax by using built-in bunsen burners to create the objects.
This project is just absolutely incredible to me, as it places product design in a theatrical performance complete with a score, choreography, and lights. The amount of vision and ambition that it took to complete this project is something that I hope to one day attain.
A video showing the process of this project.