Conductive Melody combines conductive fabric with the magic of #MachineLearning to interactively create music.

Conductive Melody combines conductive cooper fabric with the magic of machine learning to interactively create music. We packed in a 12 channel capacitive touch sensor board, an arduino and a raspberry pi (gotta love them ruffles). The raspberry pi ran the TensorFlow Magenta built Piano Genie, an intelligent musical interface, to expand the 8 "keys" on the sleeve into a full 88 keyboard based on the previous played notes.

Side story Uniting music, clothing, and artistic performance, Conductive Melody produces music and light that is played by the wearer and shared with an audience. Conductive Melody uses a sleeve of laser cut conductive fabric as a capacitive touch musical interface. The conductive fabric interface is inspired by the strings of a harp and was designed to be scrolling and organic. The music is made through machine learning; a form of AI where a computer algorithm analyses and stores data over time and then uses this data to make decisions and predict future outcomes. An Arduino microcontroller captures touch inputs and a mini-computer, the Raspberry Pi, uses Piano Genie, a machine learning music interface, to expand input from the 8 capacitive touch inputs to a full 88 key piano in real time. The capacitive touch sensors also control the color and display of the lights on the front and back of the garment. The music can be played from the wearable speaker or through a computer or sound system.