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Ido Calman

Initial Idea

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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.

First sketch - glass and LEDs

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:

Board real life

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