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NAMM 2006 Show NewsAudiopad - An Experimental Electronic Music Interface
The Audiopad is being developed by a pair of MIT grad students, James Patten and Ben Recht. It is an application of earlier work they've done on new computer interfaces. A video projector placed above a table is used to project the computer screen onto the table. The table is a custom table that has sensors built into it. These sensor track the placement of several "pucks", which are colorful plastic disks. When the disks are moved, the sensors in the table relay the information to the computer, so the computer can track their placement. They've developed a sampler/sequencer that can be controlled using the interface. The pucks control various aspects of the audio tracks that make up a piece of music. As pucks are moved, the projector displays graphics that give feedback on the performer's movements. "It's more expressive than a laptop interface (for creating electronic music)," says Patten, 26. "It's easier to improvise a more expressive style of play. Because it's physical, there's also a dynamic that engages the audience. They can actually see what the performer is doing." You can see a video of a performance and find out more about Audiopad at MIT's site. Search for electronica with the Ebay Auction Finder! Recent Electronica NewsBrian Eno To Score Spore1/16/2007Brian Eno is reported to be working on the soundtrack for the Will Wright video game, Spore. Ueberschall Intros Scoretrax Royalty-Free Music Library1/14/2007Ueberschall has announced the release of SCORETRAX, a royalty free music library for Video, Film, Flash, TV, Advertising, Animation, Games, Music on hold, Multimedia, Education, Broadcast and Website Producers. Ueberschall Intros Liquid Trumpet1/14/2007Ueberschall Liquid Trumpets are loop-based construction kits (480 licks) adding over 1000 add-on licks and phrases (jazz, funk, pop, soul, afro cuban, buena vista, bebop and electronica).
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Out of MIT comes a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.