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Bubblegum Drum Sequencer Goes One Better, Has Edible Parts


If you liked the ball-bearing tangible drum sequencer the other day, you'll love this: some students at UC Berkeley's School of Information have created a similar device, this time combining computer imaging and bubblegum balls to create bangin' tunes. Using a similar sort of hole-matrix, this version uses nifty software which detects the colour and position of the gumballs, which we think must open up the device to a few more drum effects than you can hear in the video, but whatever—it's worth it to see the dancing.
[Bubblegum Sequencer via Technabob]

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Beautiful Drum Sequencer Design Has Balls

Experimenting with how musicians physically interact with an electronic kit is not new but this design for a drum sequencer interface by doctoral student Peter Bennett is just awesome. It's simple too: each drum effect has a track on BeatBearing's plastic screen, and by dropping a ball bearing into a hole you activate that track's effect as a scanning light beam encounters it. When you watch a video of it in action, moving the bearings around in real time is like a kind of weird drum ballet: More »