Wizard of Oz Prototype and Second IDEA

After defining our first idea for the project, we developed our "Wizard of Oz" prototype,
in which we wanted to visualize in a general way what would be the shape of the mixing board,
the way the different elements should be arranged in it, and how the blocks should fit in the rails
to start doing a music composition. With the prototype, we dig deeper in to the idea of having
the blocks with different properties such as weight, color, or materials, to differentiate one from another
and to encourage users to recognize the properties of a musical element through physical descriptions.
After trying to find the relation of this idea with the one we had before about mixing different music
components, we realized that we were trying to merge two complete different ideas that could generate
confusion for the user and lose the sense of what we want to teach him.

This is how we came up with the idea of our second prototype. In this one we focus mainly on how
different materials may be related to descriptive elements of a sound and how different compositional
aspects can be varied within the same material to generate alterations in the sound.
Therefore, the user will be able to pick only one block of many with different materials to activate
the mixing board and begin to experience all the possibilities that can be achieved within a single genre.

We also explore the configuration of the mixing board in a way that the user could create sounds by
him/herself but also in collaboration if he/she is visiting the museum with someone else.