Movable – Sound – Sculpture

My first idea for final physical computing final project is to making a sound sculpture, something loud, noisy and annoying people! yes! that is the keyword!

I came up with idea of puppet that using wire to control puppet and this thing link to Modular synthesizer that using a lot of wires to create different sounds.

Users have to make different position to make sound work. So they will make themselves in a weird position if they need to hear different sound or trying to make a song by keep dancing. Here is my first prototype of materials and how things should work.

Next processing, I try to working on accelerometer and put it into max msp. Here is some of idea of how sounds work relate to body movement.

In the video I also try a new sensor. I used pressure sensor and put it in rubber wire. I close both side of wire by using replacement valves then pump air into a wire. So when I stretch wire, air pressure changed then input value will change.

here is a making of stretch – air pressure – sensor wire.

arduino code

Arduino Code

Max msp pat

as you can see who wrote arduino serial communication to Max.. yes!! TOM IGOE!! Thank you Tom!!!!!!

Special thanks
Thomas Igoe
Aarón Montoya-Moraga
Sebastian Morales
Jingwen Zhu
Rebecca Lieberman
All my classmate who always give me good comments and testing my prototype.

// [BOMSF] Bills of Materials (so far)
-rubber pipes 1.19/feet > 7.14$
-braided vinyl 0.69/feet > .73$(+taxes)
-stainless steel clamps 1/4in to 5/8in > 5.99$/pack
-glue > 6$
-replacement values + needle >9.95$/pack
-pressure sensor 2.59+9.99+10.20+13.99 > still explore, i want to test which one is good for my project.

To be continued..