Final Project Proposal Liz Maday

For my final project, I am going to create an interactive instrument using the keyboard to create sounds. There will be a visual representation of this instrument displayed on the canvas. It will not look like a traditional instrument, it may include one or more bell sections, in addition to many keys. I envision something akin to a Dr. Seuss instrument. Each key displayed on this instrument will correspond to one of the keys on the user’s computer keyboard. This information will be displayed on the keys on the instrument. When the user presses one of the keys, a specific sound will be produced, and the corresponding key on the instrument will light up or move. Certain sounds will be drones that continue to sound until the same key is pressed again, and other sounds will be percussive, only sounding right when the key is pressed, for a short period of time.

In addition, some visual representation will be generated in the background as any particular sound is playing.

I plan on including some kind of pop up instructions window that provides very basic instructions for how to explore this instrument. This window would be displayed when the user clicks the indicated section of the canvas.