Sound Blok
Sound Blok is a stackable musical instrument instrument. Audiences play Sound Blok by stacking blocks on top of one another. The amount of blocks that are stacked changes the notes and type of synth that is being played.
Sound Blok was featured in the Jeugdfilmfestival (Youth Film Festival) 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium. In the following video, you can see the tiny audience members interacting with Sound Blok.
The Sound Blok stacking mechanism is enabled by connectors in the back of each cube. These connectors enable electricity to flow through each LED and also contain a small resistor. Sound Blok changes audio according to the change in resistance caused by stacking each cube. In this version the connectors do tend to break, so I keep a lot of spares handy. A more durable version is in the works!
Sound Blok is an instrument that is best enjoyed from the floor. Here are some images of the installation at JEF, Antwerp.
Below are some photos of my prototyping process. I always start small and scale up. The aim of this tiny version was to determine whether I could maintain connections between each LED through conductive touch points.
