An mp3 player that explores the notions of controlling your listening experience.
By manipulating the bamboo keys on the inside of each box the user can alter the music listened to subtly. It was also about understanding materials and manufacturing processes.
This mp3 player was inspired from a piece of piano music by Michael Nyman for the movie the piano. It is about being able to control your music but in subtle poetic ways – much like a musician playing the piano.
Employing and understanding current Rapid Prototyping technologies ensured that the potential of that particular process was explored in the fullest sense, testing tolerances and limits. Understanding the cost of these materials and process are also vitally important, not just the monetary value, but the impact on the environment, people and society.
