{"id":3732,"date":"2013-12-07T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2013-12-09T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T01:22:20","slug":"final-project-note-cubes-wanfang-diao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2013fall2\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"Final Project: Note Cubes – Wanfang Diao"},"content":{"rendered":"

Idea<\/strong><\/p>\n

How we learn about our physical world? How we learn light? How we learn sound? How we get the basic concept of space and time?<\/p>\n

As for me, I learned form experience. I learned from the experience of stack toy bricks and tearing them down. I learned from \u00a0tapping a stainless steel plate\u00a0with wooden spoon. I learn from doing, learn from trials. Once I get the rule of game, I begin to create.<\/p>\n

In this project, I want to make music notes more tangible and touchable, which can be experienced in a more\u00a0intuitive way.\u00a0I aim to build a very straight forward mapping relationship between “time\/sound” and “space\/light(or color)” , which can not only give children a\u00a0concept of the structure \u00a0of melody but also give them access to\u00a0\u00a0create \u00a0a piece of music.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I designed the Note Cubes, a set of tangible cubes for kids to explore sound, notes and rhythm. By putting them a line or also stacking them (just like playing toy bricks), kids can let cubes trigger their “neighbor cubes “by colorful LEDs to play notes and then get a piece of sound or melody after a few time trials.
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