"Orchestra" of Floating Ping Pong Balls

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2011/10/10 @ 6:00 am
Category Computers & Mobile, Music, Science

Though described as an “electronic instrument” and an “orchestra…composed of levitating balls whose physical height determines their volume,” London design group Poietic Studio’s “Floating Orchestra,” cool as it is, cannot possibly be producing the big, bold, brassy sounds of The Benny Goodman Orchestra that accompany their embedded video, above. Which naturally leads me to wonder what it really sounds like. [via Dude Craft]

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4 Responses to "Orchestra" of Floating Ping Pong Balls

Rita Lopes on October 10th, 2011 at 1:20 pm said:

sounds like this http://www.poietic.co.uk/poieticlab/floatingforecaster

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Tim Kemp on October 10th, 2011 at 9:02 pm said:

I had a toy in the late ’60s that did this (with only one ball). I remember it working better than this, but it has been a while.

Perhaps creating laminar air flow would allow smoother control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow

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Tim Kemp on October 10th, 2011 at 9:02 pm said:

I had a toy in the late ’60s that did this (with only one ball). I remember it working better than this, but it has been a while.

Perhaps creating laminar air flow would allow smoother control. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow

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Akosta Innovations on October 11th, 2011 at 7:37 pm said:

Hi everyone, there is a similar project which can be seen here: http://www.akosta.dk/en/aerialtunes/
It is similar in the way that it is also build around lightweight white flying balls, however “Aerial Tunes”, as the project is called, is also interactive and allows users to simply put a ball into the airstream in a certain height, and then the balls stays there. Furthermore a musical landscape is formed based on the movements of the balls (and thereby also the interaction from the users).

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