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MIT Students' Audiopad Mixes Electronic Music

Posted by timothy on Monday July 21, 2003 @08:53PM 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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Re:Its practical by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-21 21:43 · Score: 3, Informative

Leon Theremin did that back in the 20's. It was called a Terpsitone and worked off of body capacitance.
Theremin by zoeblade · 2003-07-21 21:45 · Score: 5, Informative

If you want to wave your arms around to make music, you still can't beet a Theremin.
different site with video by Tmurder · 2003-07-21 22:20 · Score: 3, Informative

As it seems the MIT site is slowly being slashdotted... here is a different site with a demonstration video.