Will Atwood Mitchell

Photo by Amy Rankin

Simon Sings is a Simon game that has been bent into a theremin using an arduino and the Mozzi synthesizer library. The "buttons" of modern Simons are capacitive touch pads. With an arduino in the mix, they can be adjusted to register hand movements up to a foot away.

Photo by Amy Rankin

Sonic Twister is a Twister board hooked up to a sequencer implemented in Sonic Pi. Pressure pads sense the placement of hands and feet, triggering beats and melodies that merge into an original composition. As more people step onto the board, a permutation of the song builds to a crescendo:

Portraits of 20 Sounds is a spectrographic depiction of twenty short clips of found sounds and field recordings. The images were captured using Alexander Zolotov's fantastic PhonoPaper app, and can be played back with it as well. The aim is simply to present the richness of sound on canvas. (Interactivity is optional.)