2019年5月7-10日
地点: D2 二层教室2

Sabrina Melis
Daniele Murgia
Antonio Orru
意大利 萨萨里大学
Università di Sassari Italy

大师班 Masterclass / 2

Is it possible to generate and transform a sound through a visual experience? Moreover, how do you come to reinvent a musical instrument, creating forms that give rise to new experiences?

The laboratory aims to present the collaboration between inter-disciplinary experiences, through the experiment of designing an object-artifact-musical instrument, in order to highlight the type of transversal knowledge increasingly requested to the contemporary designers.
The project is designed to o er students the tools to explore new ways of interaction, starting from the analysis of case studies and developing a design experience.The graphic language will be the leitmotif of the path, along which it will be possible to design and customize their artifacts.

The goal is to stimulate the ability of individual students to work independently, combining an educational experience based on design methodologies and learning by doing. The themes of sound synthesis and graphic design will be dealt with, analyzing both traditional scenarios and new methods of realization.

The participants in the workshop will be asked to develop analog interfaces with which to assemble a modular musical synthesizer composed of two parts: the ‘cards’, is the visual interface, and a sound generator. The generator is composed of a micro controller, specifically made for the workshop, and it will be provided to each participant ready to use. The cards instead, which represent the interface of the synthesizer, must be designed and implemented by the students. Each card has the function of controlling a parameter related to the generator: different cards generate different sounds.

Once the participants have learned the basic concepts of sound synthesis, they will have to provide a personal graphic representation of the parameters that control the synthesis. This through various practical experiences, which involve the use of different techniques. Students will use one or more, chosen from those proposed. Once the result is achieved, the cards will be screen-printed, using conductive ink.

Sabrina Melis
designer

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, a master’s degree in Communication Design for Sustainability, both from the University of Sassari, and a master’s degree in Multimedia Arts of the Cinema and Video from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.
From 2014 she is a scholarship holder at the DADU of Alghero, University of Sassari, and her research interests are mainly focused on multimedia languages.
Besides her research activities, she deals with visual communication through animation and video.

Daniele Murgia
interaction designer / sound designer

He holds a SAE diploma in Sound Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Music Technologies from the Conservatory of Cagliari. He’s currently a master’s degree student in Interaction Design at the University of San Marino. Over the years, thanks to several work experiences and a multidisciplinary course of studies, he acquired skills in the design of interfaces both for digital and physical artifacts. He deals with experimental and multidisciplinary activities, with the aim of ensuring a simple and effective interaction through a balanced use of technology.

Antonio Orrù
Electronic Engineer/Sound Engineer

He holds a BS in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari and a master’s degree in Sound Engineering and Entertainment form the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He’s currently a MS student in Music and Acoustic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Both as a scholarship holder and as a freelance developer, he worked on rapid prototyping, using CNC machines and micro-controllers, focusing his interest on multimedia devices. His professional skills also cover audio signal processing and synthesis, both analog and digital.