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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By Jen Chung in News on August 1, 2003 11:58 AM

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Jen

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.

april

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

Glenn

P.S. Nice syntax, huh?

Glenn

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.

Witold Riedel

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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Witold Riedel

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

: )