Using a britta jug and a makeymakey controller I'd found at Goodwill, as well as phone cables from old phones that I had laying around, I made a water based MIDI controller instrument. With a grounding wire at the bottom, the height of the water (as well as sloshing it) would ground different conductors, sending a voltage difference signal that would read as keyboard inputs. These inputs would then be decoded by a MAXMSP patch to create music.
Working with a crack team of Harvard, MIT, and Berklee students, we created SoundFactory, a VR multimedia project where you could produce bubbles of sound that could be molded and pulled to alter the sound.
Thanks to Jacob Mandelbrot, Luke Colombero, and Emily Holtzman for all the work they did! We are finalizing this, so stay tuned!
