MIT Media Lab Demo - AudioPint

Posted on January 17, 2007

You can’t really travel with this (it would, among other things, drive your seatmate nuts) but it is pretty neat, especially for those of us who have delusions of talent. Imagine singing every part in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir…or at least singing barbershop with yourself, as David Merrill of MIT’s Media Lab showed me.

Something completely different from MIT Media Labs.

From the Lunch@Piero’s liner notes: “David Merrill demonstrated AudioPint, a “pint-sized” audio processing device using VIA technology that is durable like a guitar pedal, but flexibly programmable and networkable like a computer. The PureJoy is a vocal expression instrument that uses a microphone and a gaming joystick for voice sampling, triggering, looping, effects, pitch-shifting, scrubbing, and more. Together, AudioPint and PureJoy make a complete electronic musical instrument that uses the human voice as its source material, and that is capable of complex rhythms, harmony, and new sounds.
web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/audiopint.html