Tactile music player with gesture control interface [video]

Awesome concept+execution! Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing when I was a grad student studying tangible interaction 2-3 years ago.

My advisor loved the idea of foreign objects (a kenyan sculpture, a japanese wood block carving, etc.) being imbued with local music (in his own words: "computationally-mediated arts and crafts, rooted in the traditions and material expressions of specific regions and cultures").

Sadly, my code forever remained buried deep on our SVN repo, and not even a paper came out of it.

Congrats to the author for doing something that I didn't do- actually putting your work out there! :)

This is cool - but I think it doesn't scale in the real world. If I've got, say, two thousand albums, well damn, all of a sudden having them all over the place on platters doesn't sound so good. The nice thing about vinyl is, while it takes up space, it is the music itself and has value other than as a pointer. Really neat little project, though.

The "next track" gesture confused me slightly. It looked like he went backwards, then I realised he was swiping the current one away like the iPod player.

Nice idea though.

this is really cool. not sure about its practicality but i don't particularly care.

would love to see this built-out to where i could take any album in my (digital) collection and add it to the experience.

has a very retro yet futuristic feel to it and i totally dig it.