Barcode Beats
A team of Interaction design students from Malmö University in Denmark have come up with a simple, but nicely executed, way of creating music from possibly one of the most prolific forms of visibly encoded information in the modern world - barcodes. Scanning any barcode takes the value of the item, converts it into a audio sample, and plays it back on a timeline, creating a realtime piece of music based wholly on the scanned items. As you can see from the video, interested shoppers enjoyed taking part in creating this unique piece of music experience.
