A Clockwork Table is a hexagonal table that becomes a musical game in which 6 players can participate (although a larger number of players is not excluded). Its use is very simple: the players sit around the hexagonal table and each uses one or more “cloves”.

The sound is produced by tapping or scratching the surface on the corresponding section/clove.

Each clove has a button (potentiometer), which tunes its sound by changing its pitch.

By activating the table in this way, a seemingly inanimate piece of furniture is transformed into a musical game of communication, dialogue and exploration of basic sound properties, such as volume, timbre and rhythm.

For the “Clockwork Table”, special software written in Max/MSP was created, which receives the sound signal from each clove through contact microphones located at the bottom and then processes it. This signal is then amplified and reproduced by a speaker at the center of the table. A “Clockwork Table” is aimed for children from 6 to 96 years old.

A Clockwork Table was designed by If_Untitled Architects and musician Coti K. and built at our workshop.