Day 11

Day 11: Shapes and Gestures

We’re back after a week away from the internet! This week we’re going to play around with shapes and gestures. How many different ways can we make a sound that goes up, down, back and forth, towards, away, etc…? Can we make them organically? Can we make them through synthesis?

These kinds of gestural ideas can sound meaningless in isolation, but when you are creating a system or a language for a device to communicate with a human the difference between, say, Up or Down can be very meaningful. It could indicate Send vs. Receive, Approve vs. Reject, Happy vs. Angry, Error vs. Resolve…it all happens in shapes and gestures.