Musical Interventions Presentation

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 track.

For our next prototype, we wanted to go in a more horizontal direction.

For our next prototype, we wanted to try a car and track, with different arms that could be extended to hit various different musical instruments.

Here is our prototype for that.

Next, we wanted to look into the actual music, so we decided to work with the rope connectors.

Here is our diagram of how we wanted it to work.

Our first prototype for this idea.

Next we wanted to be able to pull in different directions for different sounds.

This is the diagram for that.

The prototype.

We decided that is would be much more simple to make it a cube.

We then worked with the actual netting.

We wanted to see what kind of pattern we wanted to use, so this is how we tested all of them.

While we were working on this, our counterparts in Turkey made what they wanted the slide to be.

We tried using wire for the net.

We finally settled on a wood skeleton with paracord going between the connectors.

Our Turkish partners then suggested that we could do something like this for the bottom of the slide.

This is our final for rope connector.

Diagram

For our scale final, we decided to have a covered slide, with ropes running down the sides, so that someone can climb all over it and slide under it at the same time.

We will have more ropes on the sides, we just did not have enough have enough time to finish. We also will have horizontal ropes to act as a rope ladder to the top.

Final first-person picture.