Water Synthesizer

Musical Installation
Group work (academic)
Tianqi (Bob) Wei, Junjie Li, Kanchan Pathak
Tutor: Jeffrey Lubow, Thomas McLeish, Sudhu Tewari, Shm Almeda
2023

Water Synthesizer a musical device consisting of a water tank fitted with sensors, microcontroller, computer and MIDI keyboard. When we play with water while playing music, the data from the water waves is used to process the sound, adjusting the synthesizer's parameters in real time to make interesting changes in the sound.

The water tank was made using laser cut acrylic sheets, the microcontroller used was a Particle Photon P2, the sensors were four photoresistors and an ultrasonic distance sensor, and the program used to process the MIDI signals was written using p5.js.

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