French design school students Marianne Cauvard and Raphaël Pluvinage have created an astonishing fully working prototype. It is a science lab for musical jelly, called ‘Noisy Jelly’. With the lab you can create your own music, using water and a few grams of agar agar powder to create different jelly shapes. By placing the shapes on the game board, different sounds can be played. See a demonstrational video after the jump

How does it work?
The jelly shapes are placed on the game board, which is basically a capacitive sensor. Underneath the thin sheet of wood, a metal foil was placed to detect differences in conductance. Conductance decreases with the distance and the thinness of the shape of the jelly, hence different forms trigger different sounds, as well as differentiation in salt concentration (the different colours which have to be added to the agar agar/water mixture). Another variable is the distance and strength of the finger touch.

Note: absolutely no sound editing in this video! Amazing right?

photo’s: véronique huyghe