31 Jul
2003
31 Jul
'03
2:47 p.m.
Hi list,
I just found this nice link at the Debian Weekly News:
"Debian as musical Instrument. James Patten and Ben Recht developed a
composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks
the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion
into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, cut between
drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the
same time on the same table. Knoppix is used as operating system."
Homepage is at http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/audiopad/ which also
has a very nice 20MB Quicktime .mov file explaining how it is controlled
and how it works (mplayer can play this .mov without problems once you
have the codecs installed).
"Sweet!" :-)
Greetings,
Frank