Concept

This abstracted collaborative instrument allows four people of any level of musical experience to jam together, bringing us closer to the sounds and people we love.

I was inspired by the fun of jamming together in person and the desire to make music with my two older brothers, who don’t have much musical experience.

The Collaborator is the first-place winning submission for the SynthUX 2024 Hackathon. The hackathon is an annual global design challenge that features some of the best music technology university programs. The Collaborator is a response to the “Virtual Human Connection” prompt. All completed in four days by Julian Ferraro, Josh Thies, Nik Madhu, Ana Mahadevan, and I.

Video edited by Nik Madhu.

Exhibited at SUPERBOOTH 2024 and the Atlas Expo 2024

Place: first

Time: four days

Prompt: virtual human connection

Roles: concept, prototype, functionality, UX, faceplate design, fabrication, max4live patch, ableton midi mapping, sound choices

The Collaborator

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Schools Participating

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Design Academy Eindhoven

  • Queen Mary University of London

  • University of California Santa Barbara

  • KNU Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

  • University of Glasgow

  • Betzalel Academy Jerusalem

  • Queen's University Belfast

  • Chopin University of Music

  • California Institute of the Arts

  • University of Victoria

  • National Cheng Kung University, Tainan Taiwan

  • Berlin University of the Arts

  • Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology

  • SRH Berlin university of applied sciences

  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • South Eastern Regional College Ireland

  • Birmingham City University

  • Colorado University, ATLAS institute