This page documents the workshop that I ran at Schooling Pad during October 2005. The brief for the workshop is available here. I was very happy with the work produced by the students. The three final projects are presented here. |
Hands
On |
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Morotomi
Toshinori Hands On allows people to play music by tapping their fingers on any metal surface. This group took the basic piano chip and adapted it by wiring up the switches to metal contacts which they fitted into a pair of gloves. Different notes are triggered by tapping different combinations of fingers onto a metal surface (or indeed by pressing the fingers against each other). |
| Truth
Arch |
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| Watanabe
Kotaro Truth Arch looks at the experience of passing through an airport scanner. This experience induces anxiety in everyone. Truth Arch provides a humorous take on this anxiety - as people pass through a doorway a display flashes up absurd statements about the person. However the display does not flash every time which lends the experience a greater tension. |
Food
Medley |
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Ogata Eigo Food Medley takes the experience of cooking and adds a musical element to it. This project consists of three elements - a chopping board which plays different notes as food is chopped on it, a frying pan which changes tone in reaction to the different motions of the chef and a set of seasoning pots which make sound as the seasoning is poured onto the food. This group made an excellent presentation of their project where they used the various elements to actually cook a meal. |
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The workshop would
not have been possible without the efforts and support of:
Okada Tomohiro
Schooling Pad
Elekit
a special thank you to those who gave up their time to attend the final
presentation:
Don Iguchi
Carsten Schubert
and Kurosaki Teruo