Our idea begins from traditional Chinese Painting, painting lines express a feeling of strength and rhythm concisely. Our work tries to transfer the beauty of painting to music. However, I found that making a harmonious”sound” from people’s easy input from 9 photosensors is not as easy as I thought. I tried some “chord”，like C mA D and so on. It helps a little bit…The final result is in the vedio in Vimeo.

I know there are pretty work to improve the “algorithm”. Although, not sound really like music, I think the value of the work is that we try to break the line between sound and light, and see what happens.

In order to find a improvement way, I  observed several other interactive musical instruments  works, I think maybe using some basic rhythm pieces play repeatedly and only changing the chords as interactive elements is a way of improvement of this work.

The technology we used are photo sensors and arduino and Max.

assignment1 1 from Wanfang Diao on Vimeo.