MusicInk is a project spawned from the idea of looking into the world of music teaching, creating a new way to understand music and interact with musical instruments.
MusicInk is a toy that leads you to an innovative approach to music, allowing children not only to draw musical properties, but also to turn them into a real symphony.
Our project main characteristic is the use of a unique electrically conductive paint that allows children to play their own drawings.
- MusicInk is still a prototype so is not yet on sale, but we’re working on it so keep following us on Facebook and Twitter! -
MusicInk offers young musicians an immediate feedback to their efforts, giving them a fun and rewarding experience.
The game is divided into two parts: the first, more playful and simple, dedicated to the youngsters, the second, more complex and technological, dedicated to the grownups.
You can draw your music thanks to
a special Electrically Conductive Paint
made by Bare Conductive.
You can manage MusicInk through a
companion App for Android smartphones
and tablets.
Your smartphone turns MusicInk signals
into music thanks to a Pure Data Patch.
The heart of MusicInk is a circuit based on Arduino Duemilanove board, MPR121
controller by Sparkfun, and Bluetooth shield by Seedstudio.
This circuit, connected to your Smartphone can turn your drawings into real music, with the highest quality thanks to the
Philharmonia Orchestra.
We live in an age heavily influenced by smart and innovative devices. For me, the future of Design stands between technology, the art of design and manufacturing skill.
I always had a passion for 'making things' whether in arts, crafts and drawings. Being a Designer gave me the way to express myself, standing between arts and technologies, trying to create something useful.
This was unexpected ! We’ve been featured on “ the world’s largest DJ and electronic music community” ! Thank you Beatport for the appreciation ! http://news.beatport.com/blog/2013/10/24/italian-designers-make-music-out-of-pieces-of-paper/
MusicInk has reached France. Étapes Magazine has published a little article about us! Merci beaucoup http://etapes.com/apprendre-la-musique-en-dessinant
A few days ago Liz Stinson contacted us to write this beautiful piece about Musicink. We are very proud to be on Wired Design. Many many thanks ! http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/conductive-ink-turns-paper-into-musical-instruments/
Wow ! Riccardo Luna wrote a wonderful article about the Rome Maker Faire on La Repubblica, page 38-39, 13 October 2013. Between the ten italian project described there is also MusicInk !! We’re very very happy, thank you ! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2040042/Pages%20from%20La_Repubblica_-_13.10.2013-2.pdf
Jordan Kushins from Gizmodo wrote a piece about MusicInk. Take a look ! http://gizmodo.com/conductive-paint-turns-plain-old-paper-into-playable-in-1443560126
