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September 08, 2007
Wearable MIDI trigger devices: Drum Pants
I see your wah wah boots and raise you with Drum Pants! This are apparently the creation of Tyler Freeman, a new wave artist working with code and techno-tomfooler instead of paint. (loosely lifted from his site: odbol.com
Basically it's a cheap MIDI keyboard (in this case a PSR-200) gutted and the keys replaced with little piezo trigger patches which are then sewn into the pants. The triggering of the piezo transducer is then voiced through the midi device and speaker of your choice.
The future of drum pants:
It would also be fun to employ a set of drumsticks for more precise drumming, but unless you're going to surgically attach them to your hands, you won't be a true cyborg.
More clips after the jump.
Via Gizmodo.com
This clip features Tyler combining the drum pants with a Loopstation
Crazy Brazilian clip featuring a band with more obvious triggers on pants. Not a bad old groove happening actually.
Posted by funnelbc at September 8, 2007 06:34 PM
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