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MIT Students' Audiopad Mixes Electronic Music

Posted by timothy on from the cool-videos dept.

nicodemus05 writes "Grad students at MIT's Media Lab have come up with an innovative control device called the Audiopad to run their digital music studio. The Audiopad, '...is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.' It's practical, but more importantly it looks really, really cool."

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  1. Sure by minghe · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can I play Chopsticks on it?

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  2. How long until... by daveo0331 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone gets sued by the RIAA for arranging the objects in their cube the wrong way?

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  3. Re:Its practical by tankdilla · · Score: 3, Funny
    needless to say it's very cool, just need to integrate it into a table with the projector pointing up onto say a translucent surface rather than down onto a surface

    Better yet, make it work in a 3d space, where full body motion translates into music. There are a few actions that would translate into some interesting 'music' i'm sure.

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  4. Sounds great by arvindn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but since I can't access the page, I'll just say that if they can make a similar device to convert the death throes of a webserver into digital music, we could have some real fun during slashdottings :)

  5. Re:Theremin by CausticPuppy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, if you want to wave your arms around to make music, you can't beat being the conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

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