Found Footage: MIDI wind instrument controlled with the iPod touch's accelerometer

Onyx Ashanti is an American musician living in Berlin. He specializes in "beatjazz," which he describes as being built on "live looping, sound design, and jazz improvisation."

Using a Yamaha MIDI wind controller (that looks like an electronic clarinet) and an iPod touch running the TouchOSC app (US$4.99), Ashanti has been able to create some pretty incredible sounds. In the above video, Ashanti has the iPod touch strapped to his right hand, and he's able to use the accelerometer in the touch to translate his hand motions into control inputs for PureData audio processing.

You may not necessarily like beatjazz, but you've got to admit it's cool that musicians like Ashanti are pushing the edge with Apple technology.

[via Engadget]

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Kid Beyond has been doing this for ages with a much cheaper solution - a simple accelerometer attached to a ring.

His live shows are stunning; he was at Wootstock using it.

Honestly this example is a needless use of the hardware, and I'd say is done more for the "omg apple product" publicity that it will (and has) generated than because its clever or original.

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