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Drawdio: Audio Made by Drawing

By Justin Langlois on March 9th, 2010, 10:57 pm 3 Comments

Drawdio is a DIY music project by designer jay silver that let’s users draw the instrument of their choice on a piece of paper and play it with their finger.

While possible to use in a variety of  objects, when used with a pencil, the graphite acts as a circuit on the paper, transmitting the electric signal across the drawing to produce a different sound based on the specific form.

If you can get past the sort of hilarious / awkward editing in the video, it’s a very cool and simple design. It makes me curious about the potential for creating some kind of traceable sound-map, what sounds would Detroit’s streets make versus Windsor’s streets? What would happen if you added new roads or buildings — what sound could that make?

[via Designboom]

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Tagged: audio context design DIY drawing paper sound Soundart

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3 Responses to “Drawdio: Audio Made by Drawing”

1. darren says:

   March 10, 2010 at 12:50 pm

   adafruit has been selling those for quite a while

   http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28&products_id=197

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   • Justin says:

     March 10, 2010 at 10:22 pm

     ahhh nice. thanks for the link!

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     • darren says:

       March 13, 2010 at 4:55 pm

       I’m sure sparkfun has some too, maybe different.

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