Jazz Piano

Jazz Piano helps you express your complex, innermost feelings through your own improvised jazz composition.

A short project, completed in 4 days at CIID together with Jens Obel, supervised by Annelie Berner (CIID), Joshua Noble (frog), Jacob Remin (CIID) and Dennis Paul (HfK Bremen).

My role: Processing programming, Ableton setup and note logic.

Link: CIID Website

Interactive Jazz Piano helps you express your complex, innermost feelings through your own improvised jazz composition. It was a project I worked on with Jens in the course Intro to Programming. We used P5 and Java connected to Ableton.

You start by typing in how you are feeling right now. We then use sentiment analysis to determine if your composition, based on current emotion, is uplifting or melancholic. A number of circles are generated on the screen in random sizes and positions.

Hovering the cursor over a circle plays a note. Pressing the the A or S key plays base notes and generates new circles. Congratulations! You have just created your very own jazz composition.

The concept was inspired by the simple animations and a minimal jazz soundtrack of 1960s movie titles.

My name is Vytautas Gudaitis.

I am a Product Designer with a multidisciplinary background in Interaction Design, Software Development and Business Management. Currently I am a part of an amazing design team at Vinted.

Previously, I have graduated from B.Eng. in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology, and M.Sc. in International Design Business Management at Aalto University and Interaction Design Programme at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. I have worked on a variety of projects, ranging from finding solutions for children’s problems in Uganda, to solving corporate communication challenges, designing GUIs, creating intelligent objects and imagining future scenarios. Also, I have worked as a software developer in several companies and start-ups.

Reach me at v@gdaitis.com