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iphone drum machine kicks out the jams

filed under: hacks-mods | mobile tech

iPhone Drum Machine MooTheCow Drummer

Already sick of playing the piano on your iPhone? Maybe it’s time to hit the drums.

Developer MooTheCow has created this homebrew drum machine application called “Drummer” that runs on the iPhone or iPod Touch…

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posted: February 29th, 2008 stumble it! 2 comments author: technabob

windows xp and 98 make beautiful music together

filed under: computing | hacks-mods | strange and wonderful

Windows Sounds Sequenced

So what happens when you take the system sounds from Windows XP and Windows 98 and carefully arrange them in a music sequencer? Something pretty unexpected, I’d say. This is truly a case where the whole is definitely greater than the some of its parts…

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posted: February 18th, 2008 stumble it! 2 comments author: technabob

bubblegum sequencer chews through tunes

filed under: interactive | just plain fun

Bubblegum Sequencer

This music sequencer takes the same basic interface concept as the ball bearing sequencer I recently showed you, and makes it deliciously chewable. Instead of shiny metal spheres, this sequencer uses a bunch of colorful candy-coated gumballs to make a beat you can dance to…

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posted: January 17th, 2008 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

music sequencer has balls of steel

filed under: interactive

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…

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posted: January 13th, 2008 stumble it! 5 comments author: technabob

gameboy octopus music controller mod

filed under: hacks-mods | video games

Gameboy Foot Controller by No Carrier

What’s got 8 tentacles and the brains of a Nintendo GameBoy? It’s an 8-bit music maker’s dream, that’s what. Electronic musician Joey Mariano (aka “Animal Style“) took an old GameBoy Color system and built a custom controller for it that uses 8 individual foot pedal controllers to jam out on the device…

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posted: November 26th, 2007 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

reactogon interactive sequencer reminds me of star trek

filed under: interactive

ReactOgon Sequencer

I recently came across this rather cool user interface for a music sequencer called the ReactOgon. Looking like something you’d find on the deck of the Starship Enterprise, the instrument uses a large tabletop multi-touch interface to create music sequences in real time…

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posted: September 8th, 2007 stumble it! 13 comments author: technabob

box generates dance music with press of a button

filed under: gadgets

Mungo Enterprises Infinite Horizon Dance Sequencer

Australia’s Mungo Enterprises has engineered the “Infinite Horizon“, a concept device capable of programatically generating modern dance/trance music with, literally, the push of a button. Just press the BIG RED BUTTON, and out comes a track…

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posted: August 13th, 2006 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

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