Vibrano

Musical Instrument Concept

Design Brief

Create a music instrument. It is up to you whether you play it with two hands, one hand, or other parts. Think of an instrument as a specific typology of interaction that features input (playing it) and output (the music). Apply new ways of creating sound, harmonies, rhythm. You are free to choose the kind of music that is produced as well as the input mechanism you want to apply.

About the Project

Vibrano is a concept to improvise glass harp with technology and innovation making it easy to learn, use and travel with.

Team Members

Product Designer: Ishan Gupta
Video: Bimalesh Sahoo
Sound: Maria Novik

Tools Used

Solidworks | Keyshot
After Effects | Premiere Pro | Garageband

My Role

  • Ideation for the concept.
  • Ideate and design 3D model for the concept.
  • Design interaction with the model.
  • Research for materials that can be used.
  • Render model, on keyshot

Inspiration

A glass harp is a musical instrument made of upright glasses.

It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch, either by grinding each goblet to the specified pitch, in which case the tuning is invariable, or by filling the glass with water until the desired pitch is achieved. Adding water causes the pitch do go down. Each glass model may have its pitch lowered by a fourth or even larger interval.

In addition, the sounds of a musical glass may be generated by bowing its rim with a bow for stringed instruments. In this case, a skilled musician may obtain the lowest tone and also one or more higher notes, corresponding to the glass bowl higher modes.

harp player

Interaction

interaction 1
interaction 2

Concept

Concept design illustration
color theory

Design

Normal State/Off state

Press Once to switch on.

3D model
setup model

Setup & Play

Setup

setup

Notes

setup model

Scales

The bigger radius, the lower octave (diapason of sounds) it produces.

c2-c3-c4

Play

  • When you touch the circle it produces a light single high sound, like glass clink
  • If you move your finger around it gives long deep melodic sound with a light, mostly unrecognizable vibration
  • Different radius of ridges impacts the sound.
  • The sound ends smoothly with some delay after you pull back the finger.

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