Interactive sound object
Magic Music Box
Magic Music Box turns an ordinary wooden box into a playable instrument. Buttons wired to an Arduino inside the box capture ambient environmental sound, which the program converts into pitched notes — turning everyday sound into music the visitor can play back button by button.
- Arduino
- hardware hacking
- sound programming
- Project
- Arduino Sound Object
- Context / role
- City University of Hong Kong — BSc Creative Media (2015-2019)
Key contributions
- Wired physical buttons to an Arduino board inside a handmade wooden box
- Built a program that records ambient sound and maps it to musical pitch
- Let visitors ‘play’ recorded environmental sound back as a tune via the buttons
- Turned an ordinary object into a playable, sound-reactive instrument
Verification and disclosure
Created during Christian's Creative Media studies at City University of Hong Kong, where the project received an A-range grade. Photographs are documentation of the finished object and a play session.