ELECTRIC TEA:ADVENTURES in SOUND HACKINGELEISAAC SOUWEINEBarCamp SG #6Oct. 2010
What is Electric Tea?What is Electric Tea?Electric Tea is a series of installations that put sound where it doesn’t belong
What is Electric Tea?How Does Electric Tea Work?
What is Electric Tea?Electric Tea’s Ancestor – The Human Pianohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskjKBHjIl8
What is Electric Tea?Electric Tea 0.8 – Prototype #1http://vimeo.com/7534923
Making Connections
What is Electric Tea?Electric Tea 0.9 – Prototype #2[No video online yet]
Getting the Money (and the Space)
Sourcing Materials
Sourcing Materials
Building the Installation
Building the Installation
Building the Installation
Building the Installation
Building the Installation
Building the Installation
Building the Installation
Kid Testing
Kid Testing
Kid Testing
Building the Installation
Electric Tea 1.0 – Peace Games
Electric Tea 1.0 – Peace Games
Electric Tea 1.0 – Peace Games
Electric Tea 1.0 – Peace Games
Electric Tea 1.0 – Peace Gamesv2http://vimeo.com/12799093
Electric Tea 2.0 – Electric Teahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psiLqTT2inY(link is not the official video but gives a taste)
Electric Tea 3.0 – Liquid Simon
Electric Tea 3.0 – Liquid Simon
Electric Tea 3.0 – Liquid Simon
Electric Tea 3.0 – Liquid Simon
Electric Tea 3.0 – Liquid Simon
Electric Tea 3.0 – Liquid Simon
The Liquid Simon Team?IonIsaacYouComputer programmingDesign, production, videoStrategy, production, operations
CreditsIon FurjanicLead designer, composer, sound engineer, vvideoIsaac SouweineProduction, strategy, operationsSumitraPashupaty & Jennifer Loh  (Playeum)Funding, artistic collaboration, kid testing, exhibition space Jeff LimPeace Games and Electric Tea production  Jessica Cecilia RicherPeace Games productionYY HuangPeace Games v2 executionJankaHusta        Peace Games v1 photography
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Electric Tea (from Barcamp Sg #6)

Editor's Notes

  • #2 Introduce myself, Isaac, Yahoo, spore for 3 yearsIntroduce E Tea-Three goals of the talk1) explain the tech – so you can do something similar if you’re keen2) Give a sense of how something like this comes to life – inspire you to do your own project3) Recruit for the next Project-Sorry Ion couldn’t be here
  • #3 What does that mean?It means we want to make the world come alive with soundSo that the entire world becomes a piano
  • #4 Very simpleEverything else is details-what mp3 players to use-how to connect the container to the mp3 player -what kind of table to put the container on-how to connect human to speaker-how to execute the speaker
  • #5 Key insight – human body conducts sound
  • #6 Serendipity – ion moves to KLHe sends me this video
  • #8 A weekend in KLWhat we learned – lots of little stuff, and you need bigger cups
  • #27 Lesson1) We have not really nailed the kids use case yet
  • #28 we built two exhibitsBut we never showed the second oneSo then we showed the second oneLucky break – at KLUE
  • #36 The ultimate lessons:if you want to do something cool, find someone more creative than you and work with themPrototype, prototype, prototype