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Projects - Sound Rose (2005)

This installation uses an earlier version of the Touch Table, based only on acoustic technologies, with images projected from the ceiling. When users tap on the table, rose-like graphics are displayed at the point of contact and the raw sound created by the impact is processed in real-time in order to produce more elaborated sounds. Parameters such as the force of impact are controlling the size of the roses. Different sounds and graphical behaviour can be selected by taping on visual buttons at the four corners of the table. Both impact positions and sounds are recorded in loops, allowing the users to create complex visual and sonic patterns. Another button at the bottom of the table allows to erase the loops. The table is made sensitive thanks to acoustic sensing technologies developed in the context of the European project of research TAI-CHI (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction).

 

 

The installation was first shown at Casa Paganini, Genoa, Italy, on July 2005.

 

Acknowledgements: The visual part has been realized by Japanese artist Sei Matsumura.

 

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