MASZ_IN was commissioned to create an art installation for the Outer Spaces Festival 2013.
We decided to make a Musical Arcade Machine. Two capacitive sensors acted as controllers and RGB LED Modules served as a display.
With 8×16 pixels resolution to work with we created animated characters made of sound samples and coloured blocks.
Each had 4/8/16 sequences of animation each sequence making a different sound creating a music sequencer out of it. By destroying each block of the “monster” a user was disabling one sample from the sequence.
This way each level was a different music track. To create the characters we made a small tool that allowed us to create new creatures, assign audio samples, and export them to Raspberry Pi which was running the openFrameworks application.
