THE SOUND OF TOUCH
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ● CAPACITIVE TOUCH SYSTEM ● ARDUINO ENVIRONMENT ●
SOUND DESIGN
An interactive sound design experience
1 month independent project at MIT, Spring 2018, Cambridge, MA
PROTOTYPING ● ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ● MECHANICAL DESIGN ● INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK
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6 month project with MIT's Mediated Matter Group, Winter to Spring 2019, Cambridge, MA
Team of interdisciplinary researchers under the supervision of Professor Neri Oxman
SOUND DESIGN PROJECT
An interactive painting where the audience can creatively and dynamically use the touch of their hands to compose sound pieces. Sound recordings of my hands touching or tapping a variety of surfaces were used to create a digital sound inventory that was incorporated into a mixed media artwork.
Touching different areas of the painted black lines triggered different sound combinations. The result was a multisensory interactive artwork in which the audience can combine and compose layers of sound based on the movement of their hands along the painting.
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PAINTING DESIGN
The painting was visually designed to create dynamic shapes and pathways for the audience to glide their hands along, mirroring the process used to create the sound recordings.
Electrically conductive paint was used to create the design. When wired to a microcontroller, the painted shapes became capacitive touch sensors that are triggered with the touch of a hand.
INTERFACE DESIGN
The electrically conductive paint was applied to foam core. The painted shapes were connected to a microcontroller and speaker mounted behind the board. Touching the thickest line triggered the full orchestra of sounds. Thinner lines triggered selected layers of sound.
