Visualizing Sound with Light: Color Organ Circuit Design
For our final project this semester, my friend Nathaniel and I built a color organ, a multi-sensory device that produces a light show correlated to music or sound. The concept of “color music” first emerged in the 1500s, and color organs have since become more complex and responsive to the intricacies of a piece of music, reaching a popularity peak in the 1970’s disco scene (hence our project’s unofficial name - Seventies-Style Sight and Sound System, or S^5).
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