Music box playing melody in conjunction with the iPad "Little Boxes"

Not only listening to the melody with his ears but also a music box created under the idea of ​​placing a visual image on the music box "Little Boxes"is. Together with iPad and applications, turning the handle of Little Boxes on the screen makes animation appear, it is a new type of music box.

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The movie is from the following.

Little Boxes ECAL / Joelle Aeschlimann on Vimeo


There are three kinds of Little Boxes with different sizes.


Put one of them on the iPad ... ...


Turn the handle, animation on the iPad screen.


Diamond-shaped fragments dance around Little Boxes.


Move Little Boxes on screen ......


Animation also sticks together.


Followed by the smallest Little Boxes. Turning the handle also shows animation. This time the colorful rope jumping out of Little Boxes spins and turns.


Turning the handle in the reverse direction changed the melody. The animation that jumped out of Little Boxes is also the opposite movement that the rope is sucked into Little Boxes.


As you move through Little Boxes, the rope also follows.


The biggest size Little Boxes spreads geometric patterns like a kaleidoscope when turning the steering wheel.


Spinning



The pattern changes rapidly.




When you release Little Boxes from the screen, the animation slowly disappears.


Little Boxes is made simple. A metal handle is attached to the wooden body.


The back side looks like this.


It was made by hollowing out trees.


Little Boxes was created by Joelle Aeschlimann of ECAL (Art University in Switzerland). By combining a manual music box and an iPad, the physical and digital elements interact with each other.