Tangible User Interfaces - Fall 2011

We're looking into the realm of musical instruments for either:

a) A collaborative instrument with several ropes in tension, where each rope represents a frequency range (or timbre).  Users would have to step or jump on the rope, and depending on where the rope is depressed, it will make a different sound.  Users can collaborate to create chords or melodies by plucking the rope.

b) A rope instrument where the rope can be manipulated to different shapes and uses to create different sounds.  It can be played on by plucking, hitting, squeezing, pulling, or twisting.

c) A sound capture sequencer that captures sounds around you with a mic (you can create sounds via instruments or by using/hitting trivial objects).  The sounds are associated with a set of tokens, and you can place those tokens in a sequencer that will loop and play the sounds.  This would output the same as a Boss loop station, but be much more physically tangible in recording and rearranging sounds.

Jennifer Wang

Justin Wang