TouchTone
TouchTone is an award winning experimental tangible user interface designed by Graham Harper, Mark Foley and myself.
The user controls samples of pre-recorded musical instruments using marked cubes and an intelligent multi-touch surface.
We aimed to investigate evolving methods of musical arrangement and experience, taking influence from the advances of Multi-touch Tangible User Interfaces. We were also interested with the concept of using tangible objects, in this case custom made acetate cubes, and the multi-touch surface to experiment and examine the relation and interaction between the opposing processes.
With each cube representing an instrument, a unique arrangement could be created using any combination of instruments and effects through exploring each sound and generating visualisations.