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2025 Young Ones - Young Ones ADC

Project XYLO

School Royal College of Art / London

Category

Product Design

Annual ID

YO25_A283M

Project XYLO introduces a series of MIDI devices designed for portable everyday music creation, available in three sizes: Sample, Pocket, and MIDI.

The primary design objective is to transform MIDI operation into a gamified, pocket-sized, and social experience, enhancing the on-the-go joy of music composition and beat-making as social intercourses and lowering the professional barriers in music composing.

XYLO gamifies music composition and minimizes knowledge gaps through harmonic and tempo consonance, making the creative process simple and more accessible for various scenarios. XYLO's nostalgic trading cartridges also allow you to burn and share custom instruments and music with the community at ease, making a fun, joyful, and simple music social interaction.

By connecting each device, users synchronize sampled sounds and customized beats to collaboratively create compositions akin to role-playing part of a band's performance.

Making the folks, the music - XYLO

2025 Awards

Total Points: 4

Student Merit

Credits

Designer

Kevin Yang

Photographer

Qing Yan
Yunmu Bai

College / University

Royal College of Art / London
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