By William Lamkin

 

Draft version of Cut, made using cardstock and conductive tape to create circuits. In essence, all circuits start ON (1), except one involving the scissors,  and breaking them (0) triggers a reaction in ambient sound created from the experience interactively.

The side which starts the experience is labeled at the top “START”, and will be cut using specially created scissors to interact with it. Breaking the start circuit will begin the the output of music. Cutting along the dashed lines, at forks in the path, the player will be given prompts to choose a direction to go down cutting. Certain circuits are cut (turned off) to trigger an effect. Others are created through the act of cutting itself, because the scissors also have conductive tape on them that connects the blade of the scissors to the hand. The body is then used as a connection in itself to the other end of circuit. Therefore, circuits are actively created throughout the piece. Eventually the other end of the sheet is breached (labeled “END”) and this stops music playback.

Connections on scissors labeled below.

Multiple logic operations will be used through combinations of the different circuits. Here is one example of how one could work.