Week 8 Forum - Electronics - Workshop Exercise 1 / Instrument Proposal



I was bored today. . .







Music Technology Forum Instrument Proposal


Instrument Name: Layered Cake

How the instrument will be played: Button pushing / turning nobs

The sounds it will produce: Tone generator (square & sine wave) filtered with a photo-resistor of varying light. Variations will also be available using pots.

Computer interaction: I am not sure how I will incorporate computer interaction. I would prefer not to do this since it will make the whole process more complicated and raise issues.

Structure of the Instrument:
– Electronic Hacking/Circuit Bending: I will be using a toy to hack and incorporate into my instrument.
– Physical Computing: I may use the Arduino board to interact with Max/MSP.
– Casing and Aesthetics: A wooden case will be use to encapsulate all the components.
– Sketch:



– Issues you see arising: The issues I see arising is being able to create a decent sound to begin with. In the previous weeks I have only been able to come up with very inferior sounds, that to be honest sounded quite annoying.




[1] Christian Haines. "Music Technology Forum: Semester 2 - Week 8 - Electronics". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 13th September 2007.