Noisy Jelly is an unusual project, by Raphaël Pluvinage & Marianne Cauvard, that explores using gelatin shapes as music controllers.

Here’s how they describe it:

Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly.

With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds. 10 min later, the jelly shape can then be placed on the game board,and by touching the shape, the gamer will activate different sounds.

Technically, the game board is a capacitive sensor, and the variations of the shape and their salt concentration, the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal.

Here’s a video demo of Noisy Jelly in action:

via pluvinage.eu, arduino.cc