The Slenduro is made entirely from wool yarn by knitting and crocheting. The electronics and an aluminium frame for the top is hidden inside the fabrics. The piece was made for the course "E-textile and musical interaction", a collaboration between the Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO) and the National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).
Our goal with Slenduro was to create a relaxing interactive installation. We took inspiration from wind chimes, falling snow and used the tones from the Indonesian instrument Gamelan. The Interaction is that you gently hit the snowballs and that will cause the gyro sensor to play of random tones and the Slenduro will light up in different places. If you hit it a bit harder it will play a 3 tone melody and more lights will glow. In a dim enviroment the Slenduro has quite a magical effect to it.
The name Slenduro is a combination of two words; "Slendro" is a tonal scale for the gamelan instrument, and "Uro" is the norewgian word for wind chime.
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