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IED - Istituto Europeo Di Design Barcelona
IED - VV.AA.


Voice Constructor

Developed as part of a multidisciplinary project undertaken by students on Video Design, Media Design and Graphic Design courses at the IED, "Voice Constructor" is a puzzle and an interactive construction game. The work requires the participation of visitors, who use their voice to construct geometric pieces, with which they complete various drawings on the screen, and use a control to move them around and rotate them. It is a complex multidisciplinary project similar to producing a video game, requiring a script, research and conceptual analysis, storyboard production, graphic design, Processing programming and animation.

The interface consists of a screen and a microphone which the players use to make sounds with their voice and draw shapes. The geometry of the shapes depends on the intensity of the sound, and depending on the strength, the shape may be a circle, triangle, square, rectangle, trapezium or arch, and each one is a different colour. The size depends on how long the sound is sustained. Each new piece goes into the next space in the puzzle. The second phase of the game involves a screen and Wii controls, which can be used by several people to move and rotate the pieces and complete a series of templates with hidden drawings. The aim is to copy the template generated by the game, and there is an audiovisual prize for success. If they are not used, the shapes gradually disappear after a while, thus creating a temporary space that is renewed as viewers enter and leave the installation.

Project location: CCCB - Floor -1

Video design: Alejandro Sardaà Sagarra, Carlos Nieves, Valentina Magini, Clarisse Castelo Branco Rodriguez, Javier Molina Badrines.
Graphic design: Yospi Svenko, Rodrigo Molas, Wendy Figueroa, Alfonso Molas, Polina Raevskaya, Juani López.
Media design: Adrian Ortúzar, Christian Villacañas Camps, Ivan Córdoba Pérez, Mia Leizerovitz, Horacio Herrera, David Torres.
Original concept: Horacio Herrera.


In collaboration with:
Directors: Sebastián Puiggrós and Chema Longobardo
Programming: Aleix Fernández
Co-ordination: Fabio Filippi