Ocean Drum

Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle

Today our studio was assigned the challenge of creating instruments that would eventually lead to creating bikes that had musical components. Initially, I came up with the idea of enhancing a guitar, but after talking with Adam we decided it wasn't the greatest idea, so I restarted and came up with an idea to create an ocean drum. My first design for the drum was going to be circular and use hula hoops and beads, but after watching many youtube videos I decided to make my ocean drum out of wooden box with screws,nuts,bolts and washers inside. For the rest of the day I spent time creating my model. I used the laser printer to make a box out of the foam boards, and taped it all together, placing in the different screws and nuts etc. My next task is to distinguish the different sounds using different materials to have categories for the different sound styles.