ImageGuitar | mobile application
01 ABOUT
ImageGuitar envisions a new way to interact with images. It utilizes edge detection algorithms to render the contours of an image. These contours are metaphorically, strings on the guitar, and can be played. The image is now translated as a guitar that can generate music simply by the tap of a finger.
Partners: Sam Crognale, Matt Jacobs
02 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
ImageGuitar is fun, interactive, and simple. It's goal is to give individuals in all age groups a fresh and fun perspective on the world around them and create tunes of their own. Music has the innate property of making people happy and teaching them how simple it can be to create your own. ImageGuitar is an an outlet for people to express themselves and be creative.
Neurologically our brain processes music on a very deep emotional level. Music can incite both sadness and happiness. Music has a big impact on memory as our mind has the ability to make associations between music and emotions within the context of places. Our ImageGuitar helps you be the composer and it objectively seeks to test how people create tunes and if these tunes are indications of how they ultimately feel about the photo they are playing with. The educational value is that younger children can start to create tunes and with the various associations they make with music, it can help them learn about what the image represents, remember it, and be able to understand/communicate it.
03 RESEARCH
As stated by the Harvard Gazette:
"Your inner ear contains a spiral sheet that the sound of music plucks like a guitar string. This plucking triggers the firing of brain cells that make up the hearing parts of your brain... these firing cells generate the conscious experience of music. Different patterns of firing excite other ensembles of cells, and these associate the sound of music with feelings, thoughts, and past experiences. If we observe this effect on the brain we come to learn about the brain's capability to understand and process music. We can understand that the brain processes sound through the inner ear where the sound is broken down into a series of frequencies similar to the way music is broken into a series of notes."
In conclusion, music is remembered the most and processed the fastest in the brain. It also activates most parts of the brain.
04 FINDINGS
Music is very powerful in activating most parts of the brain. The parts of the brain which are activated reveal how music can directly have an effect on memories, emotions, relationships, and movement (dance). By activating these parts of the brain, auditory signals are sent to our brain that increase our awareness and memory.
05 PROCESS
As we began the process, simple wire-framing was done for the mockups so we could understand what the application will look like and how to implement the design.
