Playable — the body
Resona
Hand-tracking music instrument
Pinch the air and a string is strung there that rings. Seven browser works, each built on exactly one rule between something your body does and something you see and hear.
- Finished works, one rule each
- 7
- Video that leaves your device
- 0
- Audio and graphics libraries
- 0
01
The beauty came from refusing the longer list.
The usual answer to "make it more beautiful" is more libraries. The wager here was the opposite: one physical model driving both the sound and the picture.
02
One work, one grammar, one address.
The first Resona shipped sixty-three possible looks and no way to say which one was the work. Each idea now has its own address, and only the finished ones are published.
03
Nothing leaves the device.
No server call, no upload, no account. For an event that is a sentence you can put in the contract — and the piece still works when the venue's network does not.
Where it belongs
- A stage, with a dancer or a crowd in front of it One camera and a wall; what the body does is what the room hears.
- A permanent piece in a lobby or a gallery It plays itself when the room is empty and answers the first person who walks up.
- A delivered build with a client's colours and sound in it One URL, no server to run afterwards, and nothing to maintain.
- Input
- Hands or face, through an ordinary camera. No microphone, no controller
- Output
- Sound and light on one screen, or on a projection wall
- Runs on
- TypeScript · MediaPipe on the device · a hand-written AudioWorklet · WebGL2
- Made
- 2026, by our founder, with AI coding agents
Bring this to something you are building.
What we would need from you is a room, a screen large enough to move in front of, and permission to point a camera at it. We reply from New York.