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# Play With Your Food... and Make Music
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/marianne-cauvard-raphael-pluvinage-noisy-jelly/
- Published: 2012-03-29T14:57:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:56.000Z
- Description: LOS ANGELES — You know what they say, there's always room for a Jello orchestra. Two Paris-based artists, Marianne Cauvard and Raphaël Pluvinage, have taken playing with your food the next level with a new game with everyone's favorite gelatinous material.
- Author: AX Mina
- Tags: Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/jelly2.png)

The Noisy Jelly Kit comes with molds, mixes and makeshift electronics. All images courtesy the artists.

LOS ANGELES — You know what they say, there’s always room for a Jello orchestra. Two Paris-based artists, Marianne Cauvard and Raphaël Pluvinage, have taken playing with your food the next level with a new game with everyone’s favorite gelatinous material.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/03/jelly1.png)

Each shape produces a unique sound when touched with your finger.

[Noisy Jelly](http://pluvinage.eu/NOISYJELLY%5Fpresskit.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) is a “noisy chemistry lab” with different molds and mixes that allow you to create a variety of shapes. Relying on Arduino and Max/Msp, the jelly shapes create specific sounds when brought into contact with your finger.

As the artists say, “This object aims to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented.” In other words, we should play with our food and tinker with our gadgets.

It looks like a fun way to combine food, electronics and music, and I could see it being used in an artist studio just as much in a classroom, teaching kids about electronics prototyping.

Check out the video here:

[NOISY JELLY](http://vimeo.com/38796545?ref=hyperallergic.com) from [Raphaël Pluvinage](http://vimeo.com/user3131794?ref=hyperallergic.com) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com).