Pour Connection
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Music Instrument Design
Northwestern University
Digital Music Intrument Design
One can interact with this raindrop-driven soundscape, swirling and lifting the umbrella to create their personal compositions.
The rain, then, becomes a conversation.
Growing up, rain was a constant presence in my childhood. It often arrived with darkness and disruption, but also with a quiet sense of calm. Streets slowed down, sounds softened, and time felt suspended.
Today, we often respond to noise by cancelling it. We put on headphones, mute the environment, and retreat inward. Pour Connection takes a different approach. Instead of isolating the listener, it encourages them to sync with their surroundings. By using the tempo of the rain, it turns the music that they are listening to, into a generative ambience driven by the rhythm and randomness of the raindrops falling onto the umbrella intrument.
The user can then play with the umbrella around to unlock its different possibilities, and potentially discover their own compositions in tune with the rain.
Stephan Moore