April 5, 2012

Noisy Jelly

A combination of an Arduino microprocessor, a capacitive surface, software, and gelatin, Marianne Cauvard and Raphael Pluvinage have created a series of musical instruments that looks like something Cornelius would've brought on stage in the '90s:




So how does it work?

...The game board is a capacitive sensor, and the variations of the shape and their salt concentration, the distance and the strength̢۬of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal.
This object aims to demonstrate that electronic[s] can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged̢۬as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented.

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