Looks Like Music: Robot Trains Writing Music With Magic Markers

The premise is as simple as it is sweet: Draw a colourful squiggle with a magic marker on a canvas and let a miniature-sized robot train turn the illustrated line into sound upon driving over it. Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki has built an astonishing mechanism for visualising music.

Himself suffering from dyslexia, Suzuki has been toiling in the field of alternative interpretations of sound and vision for quite some time. (Remember the Hollertronics piece we posted a while back?) Searching for systems that don't require words to explain, it seems like the media artist has struck gold with his latest project. After all, what beats a combination of magic markers, soothing tinkling and tiny robot trains?

Head over to Fast Co.Design to find out more about the project, which was conducted this August as part of Mudam Publics Summer Project, but might in fact soon enter into mass-production.