Audiopad

Audiopad by James Patten and Ben Recht; Photo - Wired

Wired looks at a crazy new way to compose music: Using plastic discs, a projected interface, and a special table with radio sensors, one can manipulate and create music from pre-programmed tracks in a cool touch interface. Created by James Patten (whose Corporate Fallout Detector Gothamist looked at last week) and Ben Recht, Audiopad is reminscent, as Wired points out, of the "scrubbing the image" concept from Minority Report, but it's cooler because Audiopad actually works now. Check out the video of Audiopad in action. [Thanks, MKT]

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you have a really nice site.
if you let me i wanna use some of your posts in my group persian weblog.but in persian language

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Jen, can you buy me one of those for my birthday?

You should definitely check out the site of my friends at meso.net. They have been building similar systems for several years now.
Also check out their subdivision involving-systems.com
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You should definitely check out the site of my friends at meso.net. They have been building similar systems for several years now.
Also check out their subdivision involving-systems.com
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Interesting possibilities from both the perspective of both the artist and the audience. If the surface of the audiopad was projected onto a screen, a live performance would be more interesting than a guy pushing buttons on his laptop. The audience could see what changes were being made in real time. Some musicians can really rock the laptop, like Vladislav Delay and Kid 606. But most stand there like they're checking email.

I miss jake. Today is a slow day on gothamist (no offense jen)

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Um, it's a slow day because I had to get my ass on a plane to NY on the early afternoon. I'm going to rant a little, probably because I've been caught on a delayed plane for 3 extra hours: You're lucky you got anything at all.

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