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Dance dance automation: music from the factory floor

Melding footage of analogue mechanisation with electronic music created from the actual sounds of small factories across Japan, this transfixing short features robotic arms cooperating to bend, twist and cut small coils into an amazing array of springs with mesmerising precision. The result is 五光発條 × Sountrive「GOKO BANE」– a music video to a hypnotic dance track.

Via Kottke

Video by INDUSTRIAL JP

22 November 2016
Aerial view of a motorway intersection split by a pink line with abstract purple patterns below, in a photo.

videoMusic

Watch as the rhythms of traffic create a mesmerising score

2 minutes

A man in a white suit and bowtie standing in front of the Mark Twain Riverboat entrance by a river on a sunny day.

videoTravel

Retracing Mark Twain’s path, a filmmaker sets out to understand the mighty Mississippi

28 minutes

3D heat map graph with peaks in red and valleys in blue showing data variation.

videoMusic

A riveting audiovisual dive into what makes sounds harmonious, or not

28 minutes

Photo of a woman in a red coat gazing out a foggy window with a contemplative expression.

videoProgress and modernity

Moving from Tibet to Beijing, Drolma reconciles big dreams with harsh realities

31 minutes

3D rendering of an ancient water clock with zodiac signs and blue water flowing into a container on a wooden surface.

videoEngineering

How water-based clocks revolutionised the way we measure time

10 minutes

Futuristic digital artwork of Earth with two large transparent rings arching over it in space.

videoEngineering

Building a prosperous future demands bold ideas. These are some of the boldest

40 minutes

Fisheye photo of a man in a suit leaning close to camera in a laundrette, with two people talking in the background.

videoGender

A catchy tune explains the world’s ‘isms’ – according to your mum doing the laundry

5 minutes

Photo of a person applying varnish to the interior planks of a wooden boat on a sunny day.

videoMaking

On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way

6 minutes

A large, artificial ice structure in a mountainous landscape with clear blue sky in the background.

videoEngineering

Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive?

15 minutes