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.

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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.

final pcomp prototype

arduino code

Arduino Code

Max msp pat

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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..