Design Team: Angelo Cabral, Alec Dede, Stephen Phillips
If you’ve ever been to the Museum of Science, then you will understand me when I say, “we wanted to freeze our shadow against the wall” for our interactive art-music piece. This, however, seemed unlikely for our team to accomplish because the Museum of Science uses phosphorescent material and places projectors behind their walls, something we wouldn’t be able to do in the two-week time frame of our studio. Nevertheless, we took that idea and used Max MSP (a visual programming language for music and multimedia) to create our project with the help of David Wang and Coach Eric Singer.Read the rest of this entry »
The goal of our project was to create both a sombrero and a maraca that would have special effects. For the sombrero, we wanted to make it play different songs depending on the position it was in. Instead of a regular maraca which makes the same noise consistently, we wanted to make an electrical maraca that would make 4 different shaking noises depending on the direction shaken.Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a video describing the Music Box, an innovative musical instrument made out of six distance sensors. The Box plays different notes based on the hands’ distance from these sensors.
