Scrolls from Sir Charlie

Musical Interventions The musical slide, By Charlie Nadeau and Nico Love For the past three weeks at NuVu, I have been working with my partner Nico, on designing elements of a musical playground. We have been working in conjunction with two other students from Reyhanli, Turkey, formerly from Syria. We were working on designing a playspace that will be built in Reyhanli, a few blocks away from where they go to school at The Karam House . We designed the Musical Slide. One of our main inspirations at the start of our project is this sort of rail slide that we thought would be interesting to improve. We also wanted to integrate a scoring system, similar to the “Test Your Strength” hammer game. We put both of these ideas into one. First, we made a chair that the user could sit in, instead of having to lie on both sides. We next built a box around it, also has a scoring system that when you went higher it made a higher pitched sound, all in a U shaped ...