ANDREAS REFSGAARD, JOHN FERREIRA & ALEJANDRA MOLINA

Former students at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

Sound Blocks allows people to learn how with a few parameters we can create new sounds, and, if desired, imitate real world sounds. It does this by letting the user control waveform, sound decay or wave length and volume of three channels, all mixed together.

Sound blocks first and foremost was created as a tool to experiment with sound, it is playful and engaging. The goal is to help children and people of all ages better understand the basic elements that make up a sound.

The project is made using Ardunio and Ableton Live. The team’s learnings were plentiful. They learnt a great deal about what sound is and the factors that make sound and musical sound exist. On the physical computing side they learnt about circuitry and using resistances to differentiate objects.

http://ciid.dk/education/portfolio/idp15/courses/physical-computing/projects/sound-blocks/