Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
PlaySoundGround

Location:   West Gate  Grass C   

The PlaySoundGround is an adult-sized, kid-friendly musical playground that's also a musical instrument, and a musical instrument that is also a playground. Your movement is turned into sound using sensors mounted on the playground equipment that send data to a computer running real-time synthesis software.

Web site: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/playsound/

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About the Maker(s)

Sasha Leitman & Michael St. Claire
The PlaySoundGround was designed and built by Sasha Leitman and Michael St. Claire along with the help of many patient, dirty, and generous volunteers. The project was funded by a grant from the Stanford University Arts Initiative (SiCA).

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