monome, a collective based in Philadelphia that has created a open-ended configurable switch array for music and multimedia, has posted a video (below) of its upcoming monome 256 in action.

The group plans three configurations:

• 256 (two fifty six) the 16×16 whose design has solidified
• 128 (one twenty eight) is an 8×16
• 64 (sixty four) is a small 8×8

All will feature wood enclosures with recessed aluminum top plates. All monome hardware will be inter-compatible with monome software. No release date has been set.

They have also announced plans to offer a limited number of “special edition” monome 128’s that feature:

• internal accelerometer detects motion and tilt which can be dynamically mapped to different parameters
• white powdercoated top plate
• bright orange leds
• custom grey or white base enclosure
• hand-felted wool case