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Interacting with Sounds 

If you are going to create an instrument or interface, it helps to interact with sound.

Part 1

Think About

How do people interact with objects to make sounds?

Get Started

  • Find three objects in your local environment.
  • Interact with these objects by shaking them and hitting/scraping them together.

Go Further

Watch these videos and think about how these people are interacting with sound.

 

Think About

How do your interactions with an object affect the sound it makes?

What else can you do (other than shake, hit, and scrape) to produce different sounds with the objects you have?

 

Part 2

Think About

How do people interact with electronic objects to make sounds?

Get Started

Play with Samplestitch or Sampulator

Have fun! We’ll return to this later. . .

Go Further

Watch these videos and think about how these people are interacting with sound.

Think About

When you played with Samplestitch or Sampulator, what were you using to control the sounds?

Compare this with what you saw in the videos.

Go Even Further

[LINK to separate BONUS XP. . .How else can you interact with sounds? Watch this video:
(Video of someone interacting with something they don’t need to touch.)]

Share What You Learned

Write a description, make a drawing, or make a video selfie of an interaction you had with sound that you thought was interesting.

Then, write about or share a drawing of an idea you have for interacting with an object to make sound.