The future of music mixing and sampling is here. It's going to be around a ping pong table, with headbands..."We were playing ping pong with paddles that had piezo sensors in them. When the paddles hit the ball, they would actuate the starting and ending points of a sample - so the faster we played, the more 'frantic' the sonic output. It was a fun piece." Link.
Using a Ping Pong Paddle as a Sample Controller
The future of music mixing and sampling is here. It's going to be around a ping pong table, with headbands..."We were playing ping pong with paddles that had piezo sensors in them. When the paddles hit the ball, they would actuate the starting and ending points of a sample - so the faster we played, the more 'frantic' the sonic output. It was a fun piece." Link.
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Would also make for an interesting way to seed a random number generator...
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