Quantum Melodies: Interactive Music Installation
Arduino, Processing, Metal Fabrication, AI Music Generation, LLM
Quantum Melodies is an interactive music installation designed for for isolated individuals aged 75 and above. This interaction aims to empower aging people's creativity by creating music without prior musical knowledge, building social connections through collaborative playing.
This installation inspires aging people to create music with touch and movement. It features touch-responsive scales on the outer ring, and allows real-time collaborative playing to generate accompaniment, similar to two quantum entities resonating with each other on opposite sides of the universe. It also has the function of converts voices into song vocals. The AI-generated final composition song captures the present life of lonely elderly individuals and will serve as an estate they left forever to this world.
The aesthetic of my installation was inspired by the poetic phenomenon of Quantum Entanglement. Each installation, placed in an isolated individual's room, is like a quantum on one side of the universe. When interacting with the installation, a lonely individual can resonate with others through music as the medium, regardless of the distance between them—similar to how two quanta resonate with each other.