playdoughphone
Channel: Thorsten Gehrke
Date: 2013-03-18

My playdoughphone (v1.5), built with an Arduino and Pd-extended. The idea is to use play dough as the main control element in a digital musical instrument. This raises issues such as, how to incorporate play dough usefully into digital technology, and also how to use play dough expressively, with expressive and/or meaningful sonic outcomes. The sounds of rubbing and manipulating plastic balloons are used, as a hyper-real representation of what manipulating play dough sounds like. 

Version 2 will use electronic ribbon cables to replace the separate wires and ribbons in the current design. Also a slower and lower pitched balloon sound will be used for greater expressiveness, as it can become faster and higher pitched as play dough lumps are squashed together.

Thanks to "Squishy Circuits" for the inspiration.  :)