Sound Low Fun
Yu-Chung Tseng, Che‐Wei Liu, Tzu-Heng Chi, Hui-Yu Wang · New Interfaces for Musical Expression · 2011
Sound Low Fun, a large sphere, is an interactive sound installation. The installation could produce low-frequency sound (Low Sound) to make people feel relax, to have Funeffect (“Fun” also pronounced close to Chinese word “放”, which also means relax. This is our main concern and fundamental idea of the project. Our work present a sense of technology, and then we follow the structure by C60 to divide into 32 blocks; Regarding the part of internal circuit design, we employed the force sensor and ADXL335 three-axis accelerometer connect with Arduino I/O and The Mux (Multiplexer) Shield, then it can produce different music with different lighting effects through Max/MSP programming. As music was concerned, we make use a type of meditative long-sustained low-frequency sound, accompanied by some transparency high-frequency sounds as sphere was shaked. When user presses, hugs and pushes the sphere, it trigger the soft low sound and lighting effects generated, as a result, user relieve his/her pressure eventually.