Interactive Art

Intonarumori

Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Fabrication

Intonarumori are a set of musical instruments built using Arduino microcontrollers, Raspberry Pis, and miscellaneous hardware.

The intonarumori bike box.

Intonarumori is a series of interactive sound boxes created by an art/tech collective, urbanSTEW. I contributed to the hardware and software design as well as fabrication. The project is based on a century-old futurist movement in which noise-generating machines were created. Inspired by this, urbanSTEW built six new noise machines, each equipped with a Raspberry Pi and various sensors/controls. The boxes are self contained and only need to be plugged in. Intonarumori was initially presented at a creativity festival where they were played by over 2,000 children/adults. It has since been displayed and used in multiple venues.

The project won the Make magazine Raspberri Pi contest.