Creating pottery with music: designer Olivier van Herpt and StudioVanBroekhoven exploring textures made by sound vibration while 3D printing clay. Via Coolhunting:
The “Solid Vibration” project is an ongoing collaboration between Eindhoven, The Netherlands-based sound laboratory Studio van Broekhoven and industrial designer Olivier van Herpt, who built a custom ceramic printer where the extruding clay is influenced by vibrations emitting from a speaker. As the video above makes clear, van Herpt’s printer translates low, rumbling frequencies into textural patterns that resemble weaving. There’s a lot of room for experimentation here and we are curious to see how something like full musical albums could be applied to the printing process, and what “solidified sound” emerges.
3D Printing Pottery
The project began when van Herpt and spatial sound designer Ricky van Broekhoven decided to host Broekhoven’s ‘noisescapes’ as solid objects that were representative of his abstract tones. Ricky specializes in sound design: his projects are often “landscapes of noise that live briefly in the mind”. Specially constructed speaker rigs were built and mounted beneath the printing platforms to emit low sounds that would influence the printing. The result is a set of gorgeous, wave-like textures in pottery that look both organic and faintly alien.