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Description: The Glass Bottle Aerophone is an autonomous musical machine that creates sound by blowing air over the bottle openings, also known as blown bottles. This design features five bottles tuned using melted wax to pitches from the G major pentatonic scale. Air flows from an air compressor tank into individual tubes connected to a solenoid valve for each bottle. To control the sounds produced by the glass bottles, the Arduino signals the solenoid valves to open and close to allow air flow from the compressor, through the tubing, and over the rim of a bottle. Several melodies are preprogrammed on the Arduino, so there is minimal interaction with the user. Unfortunately, the current version is not fully functional.

Demo of what the machine should sound like:

Diagrams:

For the design of our musical machine, the initial concepts were developed before establishing requirements, which can be seen in Figures 1 and 2. The working final concept was created with the requirements in mind, as well as design elements from the initial concepts. The final design resembles Figure 1.

Team Members: Drema Uttecht, Oliver Peloquin, Sarah Meyer

Music with Machines, A-term 2023