Virtual Pottery is an immersive audiovisual installation that uses hand gestures to create 3D pottery objects and compose real-time sound piece. Using the simple and anagogic metaphor, Virtual Pottery attempts to transform body gesture into digital music domain in a compelling way. The body is transformed into this multi-sensory space as a way of sculpting sound pottery. It delivers the same manner when we do in real pottery creation; sculpting clay, polishing the shape, adding glaze materials, and finally going through the firing process. By using the simple hand gestures, the user can experience this virtual creation and sculpt their own pottery pieces, and compose a real-time music. The meditation feeling, but quite experimental music pushes the user to explore the relation between virtual sculpting and spatial sound composition.

There are three projections in the multi-channel audio and projection room, and three pieces of pottery are projected on each screen. Under the Opti track motion capture (Rigid body) system in TransLab, UCSB, The user is able to take a glove with attached trackers, and get closer to one of projections in order to start sculpting its own sound pottery. Each pottery has different color, texture, and frequency domain so that the user can explore how the diverse audiovisual characteristics can be created into compelling sound sculpting. By moving the hand in different direction, the user can change the volume and speed of sound as well. Finally, the multiple pottery pieces controlled by the body can dominate this spatial sound environment. Carrying multiple sensory depths, the aesthetics of emotional impacts in this piece reverberate to audience's senses.