Communicate

My “Communicate” object is call “Touch Link”, and it’s basically a device that use allow people to play sound by touching eachothers directly on the skin. The body is use as a resistor that close the circuit of a electronic sound process which is activate by the participants as a switch.

Then, with several devices connected to each others, people can create a ensemble and become a global human instrument, by touching hands to connect as a organic circuit.

Obviously, it’s take minimal two persons to run it and the body, the skin, become a musical instrument. So the users can create differents kind of sounds and modify the rythme and the pitch of it, according to the pressure of the touch and depending to the part of the body that is being used.

The sound is connected to a computer via line in and is modified and processed in real time by a buch of effects that create a more granular sound, like a chorus effect for example.

I use the arduino and a bit of coding for this project to modify the sound by an analog in connected to the conductive surface that modulate the sound depending of the pressure on the conductive surface.

The electronic circuit.

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