Kelly Anne HowardDigital Designs

INTERACTIVE PROTOTYPE

Creative Lab

Experimentation is part of the practice. This is where I test how sound, interaction and visual systems can make an idea tangible.

I MAKE
MUSIC.

Explore what sound can look like through voice input, pitch, and cymatic-inspired visualization.

OPEN FULL SITE ↗
I MAKE MUSIC website showing a voice-driven cymatic-inspired visual field
A separate interactive site. Voice input is available there.

RESONANCE STUDY

What happens when one guitar
makes another one sing?

Strike one string. If another string has a matching natural frequency or shares a harmonic, it can respond without being touched. Sound carries energy through the air to the second instrument.

Two stylized acoustic guitars facing forward, with a path between them representing sound travelling through air

Drag either guitar to turn it. Tap a front string to pluck. Use ← / → on the scene to rotate, or Home to face forward.

01 · PLUCKED02 · RESPONDING

Pluck a string. The matching string on the second guitar responds.

What this model shows

This is an illustrative model, not an acoustic measurement. The notes use plucked-string synthesis, with a quieter second voice for sympathetic resonance. Sound starts only when you pluck; use SOUND OFF to explore silently. The second guitar responds at the same pitch. Vibration is enlarged and slowed for visibility. The rings represent sound travelling through air; air itself oscillates rather than travelling from one guitar to the other. In a real room, the response depends on tuning, distance, damping and the instruments. Shared harmonics can produce a weaker response.

Explore strings and harmonics at UNSW ↗