Ideas being suggested and explored this week at St George’s School in Rome for Reverberation include:

Generating, recording and transmitting noises such as:

  • Kisses
  • Basketballs in play
  • Explosions and bombardments
  • Numerical data turned into sound (measuring the school site in various ways)
  • Images turned into sound using software such as

https://ojack.github.io/PIXELSYNTH/    (in browser and free)

http://photosounder.com    (demo is free)

 

Physics Ideas:

  1. Fibonnaci bottles

Making a shell out of containers (glasses) which obey the golden ratio, if they are then filled with water to an equal height the noise aspect arises from air being blown across the top of them.

  1. Theremin made with Arduino

This is a quick and easy project using arduino where the noise can be a result of any number of input variables (light, humidity, pressure, temperature,…), there is a huge scope for this to be personalised and it can be run off a 9v battery for a long time.

  1. Galileo’s inclined plane bell experimentmodified for tone (i. E. Beethoven’s Fifth) 

The idea is a plane where a ball bearing accelerates down and stikes bells as it passes, the bells are not equally spaced but because of the acceleration they ring at equal intervals. You could customise a version really simply for different notes, rhythms etc.

 

Other suggestions this week include

Laser cutting visualisations of sound waves from local sounds and adding a QR code to them so that the original sound can be heard