KOLAM — machine learning / art therapy

Kolam is an interactive experience that allows people to create soundscapes based on the shapes they draw on sand. It brings the effects of art therapy and music therapy into a single experience that allows the individual to use the act of creation as a medium for healing.

Kolam is an interactive therapy experience which allows people to create soundscapes based on the shapes they draw on sand. Empowering people to make art and music is common practice in the field of psychotherapy, using the act of creation as a medium for healing. Kolam brings the therapeutical effects of art therapy and music therapy into one single experience that allows the individual to generate sound in an expressive way.

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To create this experience, we used machine learning tools and trained our device to recognize common drawing patterns that we observed during our early user tests.

The system consisted of a program running convolutional OSC which trained our machine through the Wekinator software. Then it forwarded the data to a program called Ableton OSC and finally to the Ableton Live software to modify music.

Drawing on and turning the board modified the soundscape while shaking the board to erase the drawings would bring the soundscape back to its neutral state.

KOLAM — machine learning / art therapy

Kolam is an interactive experience that allows people to create soundscapes based on the shapes they draw on sand. It brings the effects of art therapy and music therapy into a single experience that allows the individual to use the act of creation as a medium for healing.

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/ team

arvind sanjeev

can yanardag

somayeh ranjbar