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Chu Wing Yan June 53084026

Yan Hei Lam Fion 53084665

CONCEPT & OBJECTIVE

Soft Musical instrument
Portable & Interactive instrument
Fashionable outlook
Alternative choice of electronic gadgets
Good choice for relaxation
Mould a person's temperament
Share their delightfulness and joys with others

RESEARCHES FABRIC PIANO

Created by Afroditi Psarra
One of the designs in her project, Lilytronica
Inspired by the Microkorg
Use microcontroller board as soft controlling interface
Exquisite sewing
Hand-made electronic embroidery to produce experimental
sound
Good choice for musicians
Keyboard, synthesizers, rhythm composer are made with
textile
More portable than conventional mix console

RESEARCHES MUSICAL LANDSCAPE

Interactive felted project
Visualize the spatial circumstance of low planes in
Reykjavik, Ireland
Stimulate the bump natural shape of landscapes
Generate the pattern of landscape by
Image Based Circle Packing Script in Rhino
Sew conductive thread on the dop tip area of each bump
Soft texture of woolen
Devoid of wire connection between the textile and
computer

RESEARCHES MIDI HAT

Designed by Sunny Oh & Anna Obikane
Made by wool
Adorable wool balls are the button to control the speed
and volume
More attractive with flashing LEDs
Visual signal
Compose music with each other
Eye-catchy outlook

PROTOTYPE OF DESIGN
1) Minimal Design
unisex fashion
brooch is used to covers the component likes Lilypad
2) Traditional Design
3) Colorful Design

Promote the positive attitude & playing music

4) Exaggerated Paper Craft
Coloring paper by spraying watercolor

Advantage

Constraint

1) Draw on fabric

Easier to draw the desired pattern and sew the circuit

on it with fabric maker

Texture is plain, not

attractive

2) Collage of
fabric

Have many different textures of fabric, so each type of

textile can represent one music note

3) Hand knitting

Handmade stuff is 100% original, select own

It takes time to collect

and combine many
fabric with different
style
Time consuming,
because we are not
familiar with hand
knitting

4) Arm knitting

Faster than hand knitting

Not easy to sew the

circuit on it

5) Recycled Tshirt

Similar to collage of different fabric, design is colorful

It takes time to cut and

sew many piece of T-shirt
together

6) Plastic bag

Environmental friendly approach with promoting the

importance of recycling idea, similar to recycled T-shirt,
transform existing material in to scarf, special in
texture

Not durable and

difficult to sew the
circuit on it

7) Paper Craft

Shape is dynamic, texture is special, more outstanding

than usual textile fashion

Fragile, not easy to

sew the circuit and
component on the
paper scarf