eye play the piano

eye play the piano

eye play the piano

about

Eye Play the Piano is a collaborative project between
the University of Tsukuba’s Special Needs Education School
for the Physically Challenged and FOVE.
Together they have developed the “Universal Piano.”
This project supports each and everyone’s
freedom of expression by allowing one to play the piano
without the use of hands or arms and instead
through the use of the eye tracking head mount device, FOVE.

system

Through the use of FOVE’s eye tracking technology,
the head mount recognizes the users eye movement.
The user blinks on one of the many panels within the interface
to trigger the preferred note, which is then conveyed to the piano.

The arrangement of the standard keyboard,
which is designed to be played by hand has been reassembled
to an interface which can be played by “sight.”
A very rich and varied musical performance can be obtained
through the combined application of the mono-tone mode and chorde mode.

The structure is built so the user can freely choose which sounds to assign in each mode,
allowing the interface to play a variety of different musical compositions depending on how the sounds are chosen.