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music sequencer has balls of steel

BeatBearing by Peter Bennett

Here’s an interesting new tangible interface design for a music sequencer. Rather than using an array of buttons or a 2-dimensional control screen on a computer, this one generates rhythmic patterns using ball bearings.

Sequences are composed by placing the metal orbs in a grid of receptor cups which represent the different rhythm tracks (kick, snare, hi-hat and cowbell) along…

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January 13th, 2008 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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