Shannon Ha – Looking Outwards – 12

Dot Piano By Alex Chen and Yotam Mann

Dot Piano is a visual musical instrument that displays dots of different colors and sizes when keys on a computer keyboard are pressed. Each note is assigned a color and moves a certain direction according to how it was programmed. I really like all the tones sound well together and it visually looks beautiful too. For my final project, I wish to do something similar, but with sounds recur often in our daily lives (from the tech world) and the visual display will be associated through color and shape with the brand that owns the sound.

https://dotpiano.com/

Sosumi (Apple Startup Chime) By Jim Reekes

The Apple startup sound is one of the most iconic sounds for any Mac User as it is the first thing that greets the user along with the logo when you start up your computer. The history of the sound is a bit complex (it was also a pun that referenced the lawsuit between Apple Company and Apple Corps at the time) as it had several versions, but Jim Reekes, the Sound Designer for apple, created it after he decided that the Mac 2 sound program had a horrible sound (it used the tri-tone, the worst-sounding music interval according to Christianity and Jim Reekes), so he tweaked it to create Sosumi. I want to use Sosumi for my game, but I am not sure if I am allowed to since it is trademarked, but reading about the history that has shaped this iconic sound intrigued me to create a project that subtly embodies the age of technology.