Smell Your Art
Smell your art is an electronic drawing experience that mixes the olfactory sense with creativity. Users select from a list of colors and use them to draw a picture on a tablet running processing. Once the drawing starts, a box corresponding to the color chosen opens up and gives wafts a smell towards the user. The smell is related to the color chosen, and the boxes would be designed using an Arduino servo and fan to open and blow the smell. We were inspired to create this project for colorblind people, since they cannot see color, smell would give them something else to associate different colors with. While researching interactive art projects, Ernest Neto’s “While Nothing Happens” was a good reference, since the exhibit’s main aspect was also the use of smell. In the exhibit, users would interact with hanging netting which would enhance certain smells. We hope to translate this concept into our project.
Musical Challenge
In Musical Challenge, a user must press buttons in time with the rhythm of a song, visualized by tiles scrolling across a computer screen running processing. Each correct tap would be rewarded the sound of a note or chord playing, and if all notes are played correctly, a song will form. For this project, we were heavily inspired by the many rhythm games present on mobile, at arcades, and on consoles. Since this idea has already been created so many times, we would need to add a unique aspect to it to make it stand out. This would be directed towards a general audience who have a slight interest in music, so we would want to make it as user-friendly as possible so nearly everyone can play it.
Beat Mixer
For Beat Mixer, we want to create something that allowed users to be the ones who are in control of what music is made. There would be a physical grid of buttons that resemble a midi controller. Each column would correspond to a different section of a song’s arrangement eg. drums, melody, chords, etc., and when a button in every row is pressed a looped song is played. By swapping between buttons the user can then change different aspects of the song in real-time. In addition to having the grid, we would also give the ability to swap out the sounds/instruments associated with each button in processing. We were inspired by Madeon’s Adventure Machine to create this project. In Madeon’s design, the entire interface is online, while ours would be a blend, hopefully to make swapping between sounds easier than it is in the web-version.
Midi controller