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The noisy jelly is a game created by the French designer Raphaël Pluvinage and Marianne Cauvard, both student at Ensci - Les Ateliers institute for design in Paris, the 'Noisy Jelly' is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly.
With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After adding different colours, the mix is then pour in the molds. 10 min later, the jelly shape can then be placed on the game board, and by touching the shape, the gamer will activate different sounds.
The noisy jelly game board is a capacitive sensor, and the variations of the shape and their salt concentration, the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal. As the authors said, the aim is to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented.
Here is a video of the project. As the authors highlight, it's a fully working prototype made with Arduino and Max/Msp, there are absolut no sound editing in the video...
NOISY JELLY from Raphaël Pluvinage on Vimeo
Via Designboom
