“Music Box” is an interactive Internet installation in which a hand-cranked music box serves as the musical instrument. The pins that stud the surface of a music box’s rotating drum are replaced by light-emitting diodes and its vibrating metal tongues by photo sensors. The installation visitor uses a mouse to draw a shape on the monitor screen. The shape is then illuminated on the LED-studded drum. When the user turns the crank, each sensor that is struck by a ray of light from an LED produces a sound.

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