D-touch Drum Machine and Sequencer by Enrico Costanza

 

A team has finally created a machine similar to the ReacTable that allows users to compose music by moving tagged objects on a landscape. Designed and developed by Enrico Costanza, Matteo Giaccone, Olivier Küng and Simon Shelley, this project allows anyone to build their own instrument using only a computer, a printer and a webcam. “Audio d-touch is a collection of applications for real-time musical composition and performance, with very special user interfaces. The collection includes a drum machine and a sampling sequencer, both are controlled by spatially arranging physical objects on an interactive table surface. Each object represents a sound, and its position with respect to the surface is mapped to certain playback parameters. For example, the horizontal position of an object represents the timing of the sound. The system is extremely low cost and now it can be freely and fully downloaded from http://www.d-touch.org/audio. All is needed to get audio d-touch to work is a standard computer (PC or Mac) with a webcam and a printer.” via the website