MIT Media Lab: Audiopad

[jrtom]

"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."

Cool stuff.

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Oooh, interesting.

The first thing that springs to my mind is "What would happen if you combined this with a chess board?"

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking a series of ambient compositions, collectively titled "J'Adoube (I Adjust)". ;)

An interesting sidebar: could one learn to identify an opening sequence, or even a position, from the associated music alone?

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Myself, I was thinking of "Dance, Dance, Revolution". :)

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Well, sort of, except inverted: rather than people moving in response to music, it's music responding to motion. Now that you mention this, though, I am reminded of the scene in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age in which the music to which a number of people are dancing is determined, in part, by the pattern of their dance.