Beach ball synthesizer x IDEO
The Challenge
For the Moogfest installation, we wanted to build an instrument with play as an interface, an interactive environment in which anyone can play music without giving it a thought.
The Outcome
Giant beach balls. But not for the beach. More like magical floating orbs that made music when you touched them.
The team fitted the balls with sensors that mapped the force of the impact to notes. Those notes were then matched to an algorithmically-generated backing track. The whole experience was prototyped and tested at San Francisco's Exploratorium before being transferred to the festival in North Carolina.
