A man called Ze Frank made a flash-implementation of an interesting experimental etch-a-sketch system, he called “Voice Draw“. You use your voice, to control the ink on the screen. The volume of your voice is the parameter used to control the sketch. Low-volume turns the line counterclockwise, mid-volume straight and high-volume clockwise.
The volume-controlled control is an interesting approach. Like on the real etch-a-sketch you first have to learn to draw again, especially because you have your “pencil” always on the paper. But, if you think the system further, you could even record or render sketches to sound and save them in audio-format. Wow, I should start experimenting with it…
Update: Look at this site. They have some songs visualised with Voice-Draw.
Amazing work, love it!
Posted on February 1st, 2009 at 20:01Ze has created so many intriguing, creative webapps like this over the years. They’re an extended family now. How I’d like to plug THIS into the XY pads in Ableton Live!
Posted on February 1st, 2009 at 20:56wow. amazing. I had dreamt of things like this when I was a boy…I’m glad to see that the future is preserving itself and that total immersion into artform creation is still ahead of critics and history alike!
Posted on May 9th, 2009 at 09:54for me, sound (wheather loud or quiet) made mine go clockwise
Posted on November 30th, 2011 at 01:38