A light beam skims the surface of a table strewn with geometrical objects. As the glowing bar passes over each object in turn, you hear eerie sounds related to the shape and placement of the object. You can even create your own weird music by shifting the rectangles, circles, and other everyday shapes into new positions.
Golan Levin is an artist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He created this audiovisual installation, which he calls Scrapple.
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