Earl Park

Mr. Kongdak (On going, The Exhibition is scheduled on Oct. 2011)

Frog Xylophone, The Creators Project : Seoul 2011, Platoon Kunsthalle (2011. 09)

Openstudio & 5min presentation, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (2011. 05)

Wearable Kits for Koreans (On going)

Frog Xylophone,The Return of Techne, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (2010. 12)

“Frog Xylophone is a device that transforms one’s hand into a musical instrument.”
It consists of five finger-caps and a round device on the palm connected to them with cable. It can make ten different sounds from ten fingers by touching anywhere on the body.

Each finger-cap has a DAC(Digital to Analogue Converter) and amp unit, a speaker and a touch sensor inside. The device on the palm is composed of a MCU(Micro Controller Unit), a li-po battery, and a micro SD card unit. When each touch sensor in the finger-cap senses minute electric currents flowing through human bodies, it sends a signal to the MCU. The MCU retrieves the corresponding sound from the micro SD card and transfers it to the DAC, amp unit through the cable to make the sound through the speaker. It is recharged by being mounted on the recharger installed on the display panel.

The original idea started at a childhood memory of a scene from an animation film, where the main character, a frog boy, was playing a flute, but it looked as if the melodies were coming from his moving fingers. This image developed into the idea of hands transformed into an musical instrument. By putting on this device, our hands turn into a xylophone. Its moving fingers make sound anywhere on the body, which in turn makes the whole body an instrument. We ourselves are an musical instrument itself and explore another possibility of human expression!