event
Synth Design Hackathon 2022

Synaesthetic Living Calendar

Hear the passage of time
Daisy seed microcontroller
Light sensor
prompt
Habitat
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Art installation
category
Art installation

Coaches & collaborators

institute
Colorado University, ATLAS institute
The Synaesthetic Living Calendar allows you to _hear_ the passage of time. The living culture of kombucha scoby is placed on a sensing box containing a photoresistor connected to Daisy. As the time passes, new layers of scoby grow on top of each other, inhibiting the light captured by the sensor and ultimately resulting in a different sound pitch. The system becomes a calendar that "sounds" differently while time passes. The project challenges the idea of being constantly notified of newness, as the scoby layers grow slowly, so the temporal change can be perceived once every week, at the organic pace of the living organism.
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How does it work?

The Synaesthetic Living Calendar allows you to _hear_ the passage of time. The living culture of kombucha scoby is placed on a sensing box containing a photoresistor connected to Daisy. As the time passes, new layers of scoby grow on top of each other, inhibiting the light captured by the sensor and ultimately resulting in a different sound pitch. The system becomes a calendar that "sounds" differently while time passes.
Open source code
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Daisy seed microcontroller
A powerful microcontroller for synthesis programmed through C++, Arduino, Pure data and Max MSP
Light sensor
A light sensor detects light in its proximity
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