meet the JelTone!
July 9th, 2011
Over at NYC Resistor, we put together a little team to enter the Jello Mold Competition at Gowanus Studio Space. The team members were me, Astrida Valigorsky, Mimi Hui, and Catarina Mota. After a false start or two, we ended up making a working toy piano out of jello (and some electronics). The Resistor JelTone tied for the Creativity Prize, and you can see it in the videos below.
That same weekend, I took some of my homemade instruments, including the 8-bit violin and a second JelTone (built in haste at the last possible minute), to the Solid Sound Music Festival for the CDM/Moog Handmade Lounge. After all my jello melted, on the second day of the festival I rebuilt the JelTone with fruit salad instead, and here it is:
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1. lliiaa.com&hellip | July 24th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
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2. Piano Guy | August 10th, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Hi, that´s very interesting, real creativity, i never imagined a piano made by resistors an foods, thank´s for sharing and congratulations for your work.
3. The Resistor JelTone, A P&hellip | October 3rd, 2011 at 4:30 pm
[...] Brooklyn-based hacker collective, NYC Resistor, formed a partially-edible working toy piano titled The Resistor JelTone. It uses (mainly) gelatin cubes and was created as an entry in the 2011 Jell-O Mold Competition [...]
4. Foil + Paper = Speakers &&hellip | October 4th, 2011 at 10:59 am
[...] Mota and Shelby Arnold built a speaker for the JelTone edible piano, made entirely from copper foil tape on cardstock. The speaker’s design comes from the [...]
5. DEXTER Art and More ̵&hellip | October 8th, 2011 at 5:12 am
[...] Edible Toy Pianohttp://www.moonmilk.com/2011/07/09/meet-the-jeltone/ [...]
6. moonmilk » instrume&hellip | February 18th, 2012 at 1:53 am
[...] took two JelTones to the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. I didn’t make the instruments today, but I did [...]
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