event
Synth Design Hackathon 2022

BRN-FREQ

A pocket sized ambient music generator, to help you focus or sleep.
Daisy seed microcontroller
Touch sensor
Electret microphone
prompt
Habitat
category
Sound art
category
Sound art

Coaches & collaborators

institute
Design Academy Eindhoven
BRN-FREQ, a pocket sized and portable device, uses Binaural beats to control your brain's neuronal activities. Best used with headphones, it creates one tone in each ear beating at the same frequency. By a simple twisting movement the user can get the two tones slightly off sync. Your brain then creates a third tone trying to close the gap between each ear. 4 categories are guiding the user through the product’s modes : the bed, the relaxed chair, the thinking chair and the working chair. It also reacts to your surroundings creating a live soundscape making each experiences unique.
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the tech

How does it work?

The object is divided in two cylinders, the top one is attached to a potentiometer on the inside allowing it to change the second oscillators frequency when turned. The top of this cylinder is also equipped with a capacitive touch sensor enabling the user to browse through the different preset frequencies by a simple touch. To create an ambient soundscape, a microphone is placed inside the object. Recording everything the user hears in his environment and putting it through a reverb. When turned on the two frequencies are beating at the same rate, the more you twist the cylinder, the further apart they will be.
Open source code
Click here to grab this project's code
Daisy seed microcontroller
A powerful microcontroller for synthesis programmed through C++, Arduino, Pure data and Max MSP
Touch sensor
A touch capacitance sensor can detect anything that is conductive
Electret microphone
Record or detect audio gain (volume) changes
About the instrument
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