Project Goal: Using technology to create a product that generates dynamic visual metaphors, which create images onstage and explore themes of “The Knowledge Project”
Deliverable: An interactive tool for staging that is able to create sound when actors interact with one another (touches, hand shake, kiss, hug…). The system needs at least two people to operate; the people would form a path to connect two copper pads far apart from the other. When they use different part of the body to “connect” or if there are more people connected, the sound would change.
Figure 1: “Music Connection” System Design
Provide an impressive visual and auditory experience for the audience. Symbolize a point of view for the definition of knowledge. Create a rich and flexible device can represent multiple ideas for many other theater projects.
Outline of methodology: Using the Arduino UNO, we can detect changes in the resistance of the circuit (human act as resistor) through the copper pads and trigger the audio compartment to generate notes accordingly to that current change. A microphone is then included to record that spontaneous melody created by the actors’ interactions.
Making process: I make the Music Connection in one week. At first, I try to connect everything by electric paint. The first version of MC is very loose, and also it cannot work with human since I use the wrong capacitor value. Then I decided to clean all the paint and solder everything together, plus change the capacitor to the right value. The result is awesome that it can work with human and it looks better. Below is the picture of my finished product.
Figure 3: Finished product