Artikulon

Artwork

Artikulón is an interactive sound object that enables intuitive music-making through touchless control. It brings together contemporary art, design, and technology in an experience where body movement is transformed into sound resembling the human voice.

The object, reminiscent of a harp with invisible strings, works not only with pitch and duration but also with formants – sound qualities that shape vocal timbre and enable vowel articulation. This allows users to control articulation and create melodic or experimental sound sequences, even without musical experience. A coloured light interface provides orientation in pitch and immediate visual feedback.

Artikulón encourages playfulness, curiosity, and shared experiences for both children and adults, offering a new and accessible way of engaging with sound and voice in public space.

Author

Ondřej Puchta studied at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, where he completed his education in Multimedia and Design – Industrial Design, earning his BcA. (2009), MgA. (2011), and Ph.D. (2018). In 2015, he completed a study stay at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, where he lectured on the history, present, and future of industrial design in the Czech Republic.

Since 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, working in the Industrial Design studio. Since 2011, he has also worked as a freelance industrial designer based in Zlín.