<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 02/12/10 17:14, ibi sum wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">However, to be really useful, there needs to be a deep connection between sound<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and gesture, and this device doesn't have that. You can use *any* sound :)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The eigenharp gives me a bit more joy than this thing, in this very<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sense of gesture.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Yeah. Both machines though, include matrices with LEDs, and although this is <br>always a reconfigurable thing - I actually think the LED/switch matrix is <br>somehow a major gestural interface for the future... It somehow captures the <br>idea of mathematics, while being interesting for the eye.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Yea I dont understand why really but yea. What really interests me lately about these type of devices like the monome, is the total minimalistic nature. It's a rock, until you sharpen, shape or adapt it and make it a tool to fit your need. It's also people, like this:</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tTABS_Ugs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tTABS_Ugs</a> and community.</div></body></html>