AudioCubes by Percussa

A brief presentation atBrussels Girl Geek Dinner

Nov 12th, 2008

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Percussa and its mission

To innovate in the user interface and user

experience of professional music technology

Founded in October 2004 by Bert Schiettecatte

Supported by IWT Vlaanderen Copyright 2008 Percussa BVBA

Traditional pro-audio tools

Engineer ...or Musician?

Manage technologyor make music?

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Just you, your music, and your inspiration

Intimacy of musical instruments

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Photo of Rolf Lislevand

Courtesy of http://soundandsilence.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/a-worthy-worship-4-intimacy/

How do we make music technology more intimate?

Intimacy of musical instruments

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AudioCubes = collection of intelligent objects

Represent digital information as physical objects

Detect relationships between objects

Display information through colours

AudioCubes Vision

Capture hand gestures and movements with high precision

Translate object and hand information into musical events on the computer

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How it works

Works with professional audio software on your computer, MIDI compatible, high precision and data rate over USB

First tangible interface available in the world!

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What's in the box

X 2 or 4 AudioCubes

X 1 Data DVD

X 1 InstallationInstructions

X 1 USB Cable

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Who is using it

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Berklee College of MusicRichard DevinePraga Khan (Frame by Frame)Carmen RizzoJeff RonaThe PinkertonesSimon MillsCanplaywillplayJames BernardAndre TouheyMorley RobertsonSteve Baltes (Ashra Tempel)...

Photo by Jan Wuytack

Experience the cubes

More information at http://www.percussa.com/

AudioCubes available from the Percussa shop at http://shop.percussa.com/ and local dealers (see website for list) Copyright 2008 Percussa BVBA