Tag Archives: sound
Sun Boxes Hit the Big Screen
Sun Boxes at Vermont Parks are amazing! If you remember – in June – we posted about the awesome Sun Boxes at Vermont Parks. Well good news for those of you who want more. Installation artist Craig Colorusso has finished his film featuring Sun Boxes, Cubemusic, and MB 89. The film will be premiering at The Camden International [...]
Sun Boxes from Craig Colorusso
Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently, each powered by the sun via solar panels. Inside each Sun Box is a PC board that has a recorded guitar note loaded and programmed to play continuously in a loop. These guitar notes collectively make a Bb chord. Because [...]
The Solar Sound 2 Bluetooth Speaker from Devotec Industries
After making waves with the Solar Sound, the world’s first solar-powered wireless Bluetooth stereospeaker, Devotec Industries has unveiled the Solar Sound 2,which is an improved version of its predecessor. The device might lookidentical to the original version, but the company claims that thedevice has been redesigned right from the ground up. The Solar Sound 2 [...]
Solar-Powered Sound by Craig Colorusso
We’ve seen the use of solar energy in various concept speaker systems and hi-tech headphones. Designer Craig Colorussois trying to prove the worth of solar energy in the real world bydeveloping a sound installation powered entirely by the energy of thesun. TheSun Boxes, as the installation is entitled, is comprised of 20 speakersoperating independently, each [...]
Elithis Tower – The world’s most environmentally sound office building
Designed and constructed as the world’s most environmentally sound building, the Elithis Tower by Arte Charpentier Architectshas been revealed in Dijon, France. The 54,000-square-foot, 10-storybuilding is designed to complement the environment by integratingenergy generating and saving systems. Thebuilding, equipped with a rooftop array of 330 solar panels, generatesmore energy than it consumes and also accounts [...]
Cake Records Album on 100% Solar Energy
The band Cake hired Borrego Solar Systems, a company with 25 yearsexperience in executing solar photovoltaic projects, to install solarpanels on their recording studio in Sacramento. This will provide 100% solar energy for their next album. Currentlyuntitled, John McCrea describes the album’s sound as “very different”from previous Cake records, also indicating that he will be [...]
Portable solar-powered ‘Sound System’
In one of our previous articles we had brought to your attention the wonderful solar-powered concept Gramo Speakers.But designer Pekka Salokannel is not the only one to harness solarpower for music as others in the same sphere, including designers PaoloMetaldi and Luca Elli, have made solar energy bring green music to yourears. The “Sound System” [...]