SONO DESIGNER

Making Music as If Drawing

SONO DESIGNER is a sound interface developed to generate sound from the act of drawing lines, reconnecting bodily movement and auditory experience. It maps position, speed, and pressure on the screen to pitch, volume, and timbre, aiming for a state in which performance and drawing arise simultaneously. Rather than functioning simply as a musical instrument app or drawing tool, it explores an experience in which drawing itself is transformed into sound as a trace of thought and bodily presence.

The project investigates UI design, sound logic, drawing expression, and mechanisms for recording and loop playback as one integrated system, searching for a new sense of performance in digital environments. In particular, it aims for interactions in which the fading trajectory of lines and the repeated playback of sound in sync with strokes make the presence of the body perceptible through both vision and hearing.

Through repeated prototyping, I examined how different ways of drawing affect the impression of sound, exploring a structure in which visual differences such as line length, speed, overlap, and rhythm directly become differences in performance experience. Rather than simply adding more features, the project emphasizes a natural connection between drawing and sounding, designing the overall experience—from the density of the UI to how traces fade and how loops are perceived over time.