Instrument Tinkering

THEME

TINKER

CONTEXT

Pikasso Guitar by Linda Manzer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1wHZfZz9s

Gameleste instrument - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-7vRl7EEfo

This idea of “self-built” one of a kind instruments are what I would like to tinker with.

METHOD

I will use a game engine to explore creating a custom instrument.

RESPONSE

An interactive app that shows a photograph of an instrument made with pipe cleaners, where if you hover over the “strings” of the instrument sounds are played.

THOUGHTS

I created a pipe cleaner instrument and photographed in to bring in as an asset to my Unity project. I created two different pipe cleaner instruments, and decided to go with the less complex one as this was my first time using Unity and wanted to focus on getting the concept down.

I used this tutorial on YouTube which describes how to create buttons that will play sounds when you hover over them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjH5rsmYmQY

Max assisted with understanding the UI and the Canvas elements of Unity, and assisted with the creation of a script that will make the buttons playing the sounds transparent so the image is the only thing visible.