Cassiel’s straker on monome and audiocubes:

The monome is being driven by the straker sequencing network, which is built using shado. The sound manipulation comes courtesy of shard, an algorithmic sample slicing plugin that we’ve used on stage a few times, most recently for a Future of Sound gig at (re)Actor3 in Liverpool.

These videos demo Shado, “a futuristic, top-secret Monome compositing system in operation.”

Shado is an open-source compositing and sprite library for the Monome. It is written in Java, but designed to work seamlessly with a lightweight scripting language like Groovy or Python.

These videos highlight the fact that Monome’s strength isn’t it’s array of switches of lights, but the fact that it’s completely open to hacking.

cassiel via apc