Tuesday, January 15, 2008

BeatBearing Music Sequencer



Clearly, this is a day of ultimate coolness in design and innovation. Check this out.
Whoa. On the announce date of the MacBook Air, I am shocked to find myself finding something else in the running for the most fascinating example of great design I've seen today.

Wow.

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/01/simple_music_sequencer_uses_ba.php

Quote:
We've seen music sequencers in the past, but nothing that rivals the BeatBearing for simplicity and number of balls. The unit was designed by Peter Bennett during his studies of new techniques people can use to interact with musical instruments.

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 the vertical axis, and beats along the horizontal.

So it works like any other sequencer, but with balls. And let's face the facts people: balls make everything awesome.


Demo seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreP8FMupyM&

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