Looking Outwards-04- sectionC

For this week’s blog, I wanted to write about a project done by Amanda Ghassaei. Her project called Sugarcube, is a device that is a grid based MIDI controller that also detects the x and y accelerator or the user’s movement to  visualize it  through moving lights. The cubes planted on the device in rows of four down and four across are also able to be pressed by the user which will turn on the light for that respective cube. I thought this project was super interesting because it detects the tilt of the device to reflect it in a visual way. Aside from the purpose of the project, the visual itself is a very intriguing part in itself. Amanda Ghassaei paid close attention to the visual lights in her project to make the lights resemble the movement as accurately as possible. Not only does she make this project connect to movement, she also brings in audio to this project by making it possible for her many things with sound. The device is able to connect to a variety of apps to control sound. Amanda also created other apps that make it possible to connect to MaxMSP to control audio.