SYNEST


Interaction Design
SYNEST is a multi-modal musical device that trains you to identify musical notes via feeling, seeing and hearing. As you move around the interface, you hear a note, see the colour that you can now associate with this pitch, and feel the vibration at the same frequency of the pitch of the sound. It’s designed as a teaching tool to introduce beginner/hobbyist musicans to music theory.

This page gives a brief overview of the project including the original project presentation that I made in 2020 that details the research, concept development, and a demo of the prototype I built using cardboard, copper tape, electric paint and Bare Conductive’s Touch Board and Arduino.

Because of lockdown, I didn’t have access to the workshop to make a prototype closer to what I imagined when I started the project, so I had to be creative about how I could show proof of concept. As a result, I made several cardboard prototypes and experimented with the making process, which made for much better research than I had planned. 

SYNEST


Interaction Design
Original Project Presentation:
     
SYNEST is a multi-modal musical device that trains you to identify musical notes via feeling, seeing and hearing. As you move around the interface, you hear a note, see the colour that you can now associate with this pitch, and feel the vibration at the same frequency of the pitch of the sound. It’s designed as a teaching tool to introduce beginner/hobbyist musicans to music theory.

This page gives a brief overview of the project including the original project presentation that I made in 2020 that details the research, concept development, and a demo of the prototype I built using cardboard, copper tape, electric paint and Bare Conductive’s Touch Board and Arduino.

Because of lockdown, I didn’t have access to the workshop to make a prototype closer to what I imagined when I started the project, so I had to be creative about how I could show proof of concept. As a result, I made several cardboard prototypes and experimented with the making process, which made for much better research than I had planned.