Traces of sound

The video below is a small demonstration showing an early stage of the Traces of sound-installation.
The installation were made and exhibited during my 2nd semester at ArT.

The sounds played in the video are not the sounds used for the original installation. I were curious about trying to use my own sounds together with the installation... and this was the result one afternoon in may 2011.

- The installation consist of 9 footprints made of old carpets.
- Each footprint have a pressure sensor underneath.
- When pressure is added to the sensor, a signal will go into my computer via an arduino board and await    
  orders from a programming language called Max Msp Jitter.
- A code/patch constructed inside Max is able to pick up signals from each footprint and play a soundfile
  each time a pressure have been added to the footprints.
- To make things interesting, Max plays a random soundfile each time the footprints have been triggered.
- The random choice of soundfiles make the outcome of the installation different from time to time.

Here is a photo of the sensors underneath the footprint

Working process

Arduino board + a lot of wires

Equipment 

The footprints

 Painting

Coding 

Cutting 

Pressure sensor

The arduino board

A more in-depth walkthrough of the actual installation traces of sound will be posted later on