Re: [microsound] SONY's idea of the future of music

["pelagius pelagius" <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: ndk <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  The samples used are seem to be the kawaii factor. I wonder what went
>into choosing them? Someone thought they'd be non-threatening? It's a
>pet interest of mine with algorithmic music. While interface and the
>algorithm get studied the choice of the set of timbres & pitches that is
>chosen is so much more crucial than most people showing off their
>results want to admit to when it comes to the overall impression of
>something algorithmic.

I thought it was a design for a hardware/software interface which presumably 
you could load your own samples into (basically a sequencer).  But it would 
be interesting to see the idea expanded to include sound generation and 
modification as well.  It would also be fun to see something like that built 
as 6 sided cubes which you could arrange in space and build big musical 
building-block structures.  Even better would be modules shaped as pyramids 
so you could build geodesic music.

At any rate I thought the idea looked really cool and it's probably capable 
of a lot more than the video demo showed.  I was wondering what it would be 
like for kids to "jam" with those though.  Would it be like playing with 
other toys where the kid with the largest set of blocks would be able to 
dominate the situation?

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