Initial Idea

My initial ideas (clearly, will change during the semester) is to create a board where one can draw sine waves and create harmonies. Essentially, allowing anyone with no musical background to experiment with music creation just by drawing waves. The way I imagine this project is by having a glass table, and underneath it LED lights. With some pressure sensors, we can determine the location in which the user touches the glass, and have corresponding LEDs turn on.

I found this idea compelling for a few reasons:

• It relates to my research field - Telecreativity
• It combines many different form of sign manipulation - draw, music, and signal analysis
• It is large size and easy to demonstrate

So I imagine this board in real life to look something like that:

Then the wave can be calculate based on the turned on LEDs and produce some harmony using a simple sound processing algorithm.