What is the prompt for this studio project?
The prompt is to create a musical intervention that is able to be interacted with in the walkway that is leading to the main entrance. Mr. Smail said that the possible locations for a musical instrument were anywhere along the main entrance pathway. There were some restrictions such as noise level, when to play it, how to install, and size of the instrument.
How are we addressing it?
At first we had the idea that we could make something like the musical fence at the montshire museum and hit it with rubber mallets(http://www.paulmatisse.com/the-musical-fence). Then we realized that this might be a little bit too hard so we started to think about musical rocks where you would drop a rock down a funnel and it would hit metal pipes and make noise. We had one last idea to make a row of drums that you hit with a mallet to make noise. We ended up pursuing the idea of the drums.
Our Musical Intervention...
Our musical instrument is a row of drums that when hit makes high to low noise depending on which drum you hit. You hit the drum with a rubber mallet, and this instrument will be installed along the hallway right by the gym where there are railings, and people can interact with it and create music.
Lessons learned from prototype...
A lesson that we learned from our prototypes is how durable the material was and that the final project would need to be more durable. We also learned the right lengths for a tube to make a certain noise.
Next steps...
Some next steps that we could take are to use metal cylinders to make the vibration and noise louder and better. We could also use something better than a tarp for the top of the drum.
Outside precedents that influenced us...
Some outside precedents that influenced us were The Musical Fence this influenced us because we got the idea to hit something with a mallet but the actual fence part would be too difficult. So we decided to just do a drum and hit it with a whole made mallet.
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