<br> Check this fun project out - touch-sensitive musical jellies. :)<br> <a href="http://vimeo.com/38796545">http://vimeo.com/38796545</a><br><br> They have a technical sheet here:<br> <a href="http://pluvinage.eu/NOISYJELLY_presskit.pdf">http://pluvinage.eu/NOISYJELLY_presskit.pdf</a><br>
<br> Short version: They mould jellies using jelly powder and differing concentrations of salt. The jellies are put over a thin wooden board, with a metal foil plate beneath it, hooked up to an arduino using a capacitance sensing library. The arduino connects to a laptop running Max/msp, which takes the capacitance change inputs as midi controls and generates sounds from a sound library.<br>
<br> Very neat - I'm attracted to the bright colours and weird textures. The "musical" noises might sound more harmonious if they were all notes from a consistent chord or something - right now it sounds like random bleeps and bloops and listening to it for an hour at an installation would make you crazy.<br>
I wonder how long the jellies last being manipulated? Maybe a silicon gel would be more durable? In the demo video a girl rips the long saw-shape in half before long and it doesn't resist much.<br><br> -Jason Cobill<br>