The samchillian - a musical instrument based on relativity.

[ariannanasser]

how can i find the title of this music background?

[ToXicAnimosity]

your fingers need not move? so its like a telapathical instrument...

[MrKoukao]

Take my money, take it now!

[TheCyShow]

meh

[sild123]

i call that, the "lobster"

[johydee1]

You could still read standard notation with this. Instead of reading notes - a b c# - you would read everything as intervals. Major 3rd would be a 4, minor 3rd would be a 3, etc. Or am I understanding the instrument wrong?

[ShibbyDaisy]

@johydee1 it seems if you press a note, it counts from that note. So it you say is C major and press 2+ you would play a D. but if you press -2 after that you're back on the C... really confusing x-X

[apollodesign]

I think this instrument could actually be used for one hell of a good learning tool for musicians to develop their ear and pitch. It forces you to think your music through by intervallic value opposed to a relative key - assuming it has a chromatic function - that many musicians know they need but don't find the means to do so. I dig it.

[samandy1110]

That really is a good idea.....

[heymisterjoe]

Where is the control in real time of the attack, decay, sustain or release in this thing ?

[waterphoneman]

Out there axe.

[FreakMarius]

Can't wait to play this instrument live, it would look totally bad-ass and I would get lots of chicks ಠ_ಠ

[xylojim]

I make acoustic instruments for a living and generally don't go for electronic sounds; but this is an awesome instrument!

[Trolleatingpankakes]

@aufulguitatplayer the always have

[awfulguitarplucker]

finally MUSic and MAth back together!

[fl260]

Don't like it.

I listen almost only electronic music but only play with acoustic instruments (unless i'm on my computer).

Amon Tobin is doing AWESOME electronic music... yet using mainly acoustic (and old and unorthodox) instruments, and his music his just incredible.

Plus : If i'm breaking a part of an instrument of mine, I want to be able to repair it myself or at least continue playing with the rest of it!

[666Skaterkyle666]

2:12 looks like a crab :D

[yeapsystar]

Cool thing!

[Syncopator]

So what do you get with multiple buttons down at a time? Chords? If not, why bother-- I've got 10 fingers, don't waste them...

[Syncopator]

So what do you get with multiple buttons down at a time? Chords? If not, why bother-- I've got 10 fingers, don't waste them...

[shermdoggx]

doesn't seem to produce a unique sound...so is this special because of the layout and grip of the buttons...... why not just use a keyboard. Looks like more money was spent to this video than time conceptualizing it. Pretty lame.

[BPandTyler]

@shermdoggx I'm sure it can be mod'd by a synth engine

[GodOverDemon]

Very interesting; it's like you play the differential derivative of the tune. I'd like to try it and see where it goes. Spose I could code one and play it on qwerty...

[earthacademy]

Brilliant work dude, inventive, innovative, futuristic, beautiful. Our band has used exo-skeletons, body drums, Miburi, done the Interactive live show tour in Japan etc. so can very much appreciate your work. You will get a lot of NaySayers or negative haters (I got about 50,000 from the US military for using an Exo-Skeleton for music, and not war.) but they are all fearful idiots, keep up the great work! and above all, take risks and lead the way! :-)

[sschat]

i love the background beat to this... what is it? custom made?

[stevehoge]

Beautiful design!

[stillrepenting]

I want one! or rather I want someone who plays one! I could listen to this all day...

[alexandermango]

the best instruments ever The PIANO, DIATONIC ACORDION , HARP

[mandolinic]

If you play a wrong note on the piano, only that note is wrong.  If you play a wrong note on the samchillian, then every note that follows is also wrong.

[doktorfuture]

how does one get one's hands on one?

[vladtheevil]

Now let's see someone play through the fire and flames on this.

[Legendmaker12]

This just turned my brain to mush. I don't understand any of this, and I believe this instrument would be too difficult to learn about or learn how to play.

[Coui0112358]

LOL this remind me of the Infinite improbability drive of Douglas Adams books

[amannvig]

this is brilliant

[mischnix]

absolutely amazing.

[kratanuva725]

acutally, the guitar is very relitive, even more so if you tune it E A D G C F

[byah704]

i want one

[madamerotten]

This is rather vague.

[snowypetrel]

Free with an 18 month contract, like a mobile phone, extra seven quid a month insurance, automatic updates when passing through WiFi hotspots. Oragnizer built in, vibrating alerts. oh f**k it call it a mobile phone?

[takocolt]

Hope you can get other type of sounds to it because the current one kinda hurt my ears. xD

[meginis8]

its just a keyboard mapped out differently? stupid idea, NOT revolutionary.

[einsteinessa]

No it's not JUST, because it is tuned more purely and has more flexibility in its tuning, and therefore can sound more clearly in tune with instruments such as the human voice which have always had more flexibility than the piano.

[takocolt]

I agree. But even though the human voice is very flexible it is still limited. You cant produce more then 1 sound at a time unlike the piano where you can play many notes at a same time. So therefor this new instrument is really revolutionary.

[einsteinessa]

@takocolt yes I agree it is, I meant it's not just a keyboard mapped differently! :)

[ImJuanka]

@meginis8 actually it's nothing like a remapped keyboard, notice how each key = a + or - note.... meaning you can simply press the same key over and over and incrementally go up a scale. OR you can use simultanious keys to skip notes. looks cool.

[isaaclyman]

This is something I've thought about considerably. It wouldn't be too incredibly hard to produce. And it would bring a new realm of intellectual expansion to the art of music. Send me one when you start producing it :)

[hedgehog1]

Make things NOT bulshit!

[popion12345]

this is stupid!

it increases the load on the user.

[Cyonyst]

great concept!!... too bad you haven created a working prototype... that 1 was just a model..

[eliramh]

Look at the video responses, there is a working prototype.

[d3tach3d]

lol........

[Ranzess2]

Cool thing! O_o Try to use it with Kontakt 2 and Prominy SC Eletric Guitar or Fender Metal Thrash guitar sample library. Thant will be more cooler. (W) ^_^ (W) Arghhh! Searh for it on youtube. ;)

[ABNNINJA]

Fucking Koo00oooL ! !

[Lordd3st1ny]

wow 0_0

[thecarrotdude]

ohh so u didnt actually make it... just thought of it

[rhythmtandemplayer]

Check RHYTHMTANDEM for another rare instrument.

[tyran424]

problem with this is... if you screw up one note, the entire piece is screwed up

[BigGermanBassoonist]

Not necessarily. If the user can think fast enough, they can simply compensate for the different in the next note.

For example, if they hit +2 instead of +1, and for the next note they would normally hit +3,they can hit +4 and hit the same note. Just like playing real piano or anything else, they only missed one note.

[tyran424]

that would work yes... but you would have to know where you screwed up and by how much, unless of course you have perfect pitch

[BigGermanBassoonist]

Again, not necessarily. If you weren't sight-reading, you'd probably know the piece, and you'd be able to hear "Hey, I missed a note."

Chances are, you're probably only going to miss by one finger, so all you'd have to do is adjust one finger for the next note. Plus, there's always the undo button if you really screw up that bad. It only goes back one note, but that doesn't matter-any decently practiced musician will be able to tell that they've missed a note. You don't need perfect pitch.

[tyran424]

this would be a pain to practice with is what im trying to say... youd have to know the piece and the instrument very well in order to get back on track from a missed note

not everyone is as good as you are with the thing

[BigGermanBassoonist]

As good as I am? I've never even held one of these things.

I'm just saying, it's not going to be much harder than any other instrument to practice with-it's just not a beginner's instrument.

[tyran424]

i was being sarcastic...

[gammypage]

you can't detect sarcasm from plain text too easily, there's no tone of voice.

[gammypage]

yeah but if you're playing this thing you'd get good relative pitch, so any mistakes could be compensated for. Also even if you didn't have good relative pitch it would be no differn't than fumbling around on the piano trying to find the right note.

[WoAKing]

@BigGermanBassoonist Well, I'd imagine it would be ridiculously difficult to make that decision in your head right on the spot in any reasonable amount of time, especially as you took your time to type out a comment and think up a scenario detailing a situation in which an error may occur, and still managed to offer a solution in which the player would be off (as he would have to hit +2 again instead of +1)

[BigGermanBassoonist]

@WoAKing Granted, a mistake on this instrument would have more disastrous potential than on any other instrument, but there are still ways around it for those who are clever enough.

If you hit +2 instead of +3, you can tilt the instrument slightly and compensate for the tone as well.

It is obvious that this is an instrument for people willing to apply themselves. Those who aren't aren't going to get very far.

[LackOfTolerance]

@BigGermanBassoonist Can you calculate faster than you can just jump to the right note with a free finger?

[BigGermanBassoonist]

@LackOfTolerance

It's not a matter of calculation, really. The performer will already know from muscle memory how many keys they were off, and that is the only number they need to compensate for the next note.

[albedoshader]

@BigGermanBassoonist: I would also be quite easy to translate absolute notation into relative notation. What I thought about was how do you play a fast full tone scale over two octaves? Tipping one key again and again won't give you the ability to play them legato, apart from speed restrictions pushing the same note over and over again.

[BigGermanBassoonist]

@albedoshader I didn't make the instrument, but with that many two-way keys it may be possible to program opposite keys on the instrument to serve the same function - that is, the left pointer finger can do the same two note-changes with the tow button functions as the right pointer finger, usw., and that would make it possible to play a fast scale, while still allowing for 10 different functions. With programming I'm sure there could be buttons to switch between these modes on-the-go.

[14luisalonso]

@albedoshader you NES gamepad turbo buttons! ;)

[gabriellando]

@BigGermanBassoonist So, if you miss, you need to miss again, but in a right way.

[crackedegg6073]

@BigGermanBassoonist that idea seems to present a lot of problems, considering the fact that they would have to continue that pattern for the rest of the piece. Perhaps if there was a reset button?

[BigGermanBassoonist]

@crackedegg6073

They would only need to compensate for one mistake by adjusting one key press. After that, they'd just go back into the normal pattern of the piece.

It's certainly going to be different from learning how to play a piano, or a bassoon, or a violin.

[clockworkreactor]

If this ever comes out to the market I'm buying one guaranteed :P this is awesome!

[Synsacrus]

It basically changes the focus of music from the notes themselves to the spaces in between.

[oufenhous]

A musical instrument of the future.

[thadeusmac]

Seems cool- But can it be used to play chords? Or is it just a solo instrument?

[sergiobdbd]

THIS is the right question...

[jdewn1961]

where can i get one please

[mainstreams]

hey, you want some professional musician to test it? ;)

[evanASF27]

Interesting concept for an instrument... but one has to wonder: just how you'd write music for that?

With ordinary instruments (piano, guitar, tuba) they've fixed notes on a staff. The Samchillian is based on numbers and physical motion (I.E. the thumb controls) so how would one write a sheet of music for something like that?

Not saying it's a bad idea... just curious.

[eshefer]

playing from standard notation is nearly impossible.

I tend to do more freestyle solo improvisation, and for this you don't really need notation anyway. the notation I tend to use, when I need to, represents the relative changes (IE the numbers) between the notes.

the motion sensing bit is not that hard to notate (you could use a graph reprisenting the values for example) - but I never found a need to notate that aspect of performance.

[evanASF27]

Very interesting. Heh, I thought this was a more improv-centric instrument. As for the sheet music style you mentioned, I'd love to see something like that (out of curiosity mainly). I'm a trumpet player myself, so different styles of printing music facinate me.

Thanks for the reply.

[BigGermanBassoonist]

@eshefer Perhaps as the instrument becomes more widely-played, you could consider using a system of arrows [with dotted lines] to indicate the direction of motion, similar to a de/crescendo, and perhaps hollow arrows to indicate an immediate change of instrument position?

[stormtimedoor1138]

@eshefer Look into the musical notation used by the ancient greeks and byzantines, it was based on this same concept, except also incorporated microtonal inflections.

[poklzhou]

@evanASF27 by writing numbers(positive or negative) instead of note notations I think

[PandaWithAnOcarina]

@evanASF27 Tabs... lol

[sayanythingkicksass]

fun to play gay to watch in a concert

[defdeezy]

what a shame that it seems to promise so much versatility, yet stays within the realm of western keys.

[eshefer]

alternate scales is just a matter of probramming them into the software. Leon's software alwredy supports pentatonic, as well as other non-standard scales such as a 20 and 40 notes per octave scales. I don't use them much, but it's doable.

[albedoshader]

@eshefer: What's so bad about "western" keys? Besides, the differences are mostly in the details. If you want to play your music in pelog instead of equal or Werckmeister scales you can. Korg offers tons of "eastern" scales for more than 15 years now. And you can play them with ordinary piano keys. That's why Korg keyboards seem to be liked very much by "eastern" musicians, for example. Yamaha and Korg even offer custom scaling. It's all a matter of programming.

[kkorter83]

@defdeezy You can change the scale if you like..... check out other vids.

[upward23]

i want 1

[daytonadiscdriver]

Wow. That is perfect. You thought of everything. That is something I would be sooooo proud of if it was my invention.

BTW: Does it work you "abs" too? ;)

[thommotheyobbo]

haha that last comment made me laugh ^_^

[gccoley]

The original was polyphonic.

[upward23]

i can not beleive my eyes it so awesome!!!

[DannyBurgoyne]

Pretty dang kewl.

[randalik]

wow,,,,it looks interesting....is your invent?

thanks for the song of the pillow book...i'm going to download it, bye!

[2144972canee]

çizgi filim kahramanları

[octive1994]

2 things 1.How much is it? 2. where can i get one?

[gccoley]

second

[Dracopol]

What does the "UN" key do?

("Now a true dyed-in-the-wool killer would have asked about the little red button..." --THE FIFTH ELEMENT)

[InfinitySquared]

It undoes the previous modulation. So if you'd just gone up two steps, it goes back down two steps.

[harmono]

I can imagine doing infinite runs up and down the scales based on a single pattern. Only drawback is it's apparenly monophonic, and I'm not sure of the learning curve. You kind of want to have a point of reference.

[avsproduction]

It seems complicated to play.

[iggymanoneoone]

delta goodrem will play this kind of gadget

[korram]

This thing sucks you can't even play more than a note at same time

[keyanoo]

It's monophonic - like all wind/brass instruments sax, flute, trumpet. So what.

[creationode]

find a way to wrap crystal fibers around eachother and you have an entire new range of tons with string instruments.

[attdeoxys]

i think its just made by him and he has like only 1 copy of that thing

[hypatience]

I want it, too. where can I get it?

[gRm]

Stupid. Not amazing. I want one yesterday.

[THEcosmicRay]

Wake up people.

Even though it is not really an instrument (Its a synth controller), it is still revolutionary in the use of the non-sequencial Samchillian scale. They did forget to have it start at zero instead of plus or minus one (for a repeated same note), and there is no mention of the actual keyslide function. As for the earlier lack of speed comment, in expert hands, this will smoke any traditional monophonic instrument for a riff in this note range.

[srussert28]

Since it is just a synth controller it could pose as any instrument. I could see this as a piano. Once the keys are figured out "flight of the bumble bee" could be done in record time because the fingers would barely have to move.

[SidewalkFrequencies]

it's a portable moog. BFD

[rocker120]

how do i get one?

[Kohllikesnachos]

Cool...but not necessarily as revolutionary as the video makes it out to be.

[GChammer]

It's better than anything I've seen from you lately.

[Kohllikesnachos]

You havent been to my shop yet. Ive made a keyboard that you need fire to play.

[GChammer]

And how is this concept as markedly different as, say, relative pitch compared fixed pitch instruments? Exactly how is the fire used to play this piano? Does the fire enhance the playing/listening experience and if so, how?

[jdb00]

although this might not be it, it is really exciting to think that there is another instrument on the horizon that may revolutionize music as much as the electric guitar, the synthesizer, or the computer.

[FlyByLight]

Looks like pie in the sky. It's a beautiful looking thing and clever concept, but it lacks the means to play chords or to play with any speed. Unless it's intended to be a monophonic toy, it's back to the drawing board.

[SuperiorMind]

I want it.

[idrone42]

when someone makes an instrument that keeps your input within the boundaries of a scale of any given chord in realtime, i'll be impressed. but that would also remove the option to break the rules. the samchillian might be a success, but purely for aesthetical reasons.

[idrone42]

i fail to see the usability beyond a dash of more chaos to the creative process, which can be a good and bad thing. it's just as useless as a keyboard in the hands of an amateur without drilled-in knowledge of scales. this demonstration utterly fails in demonstrating why this is better than a keyboard. retarded demo, no real examples.

[grovina]

amazing! wanna buy 1...

[iidesne]

This is great, looks like there is a sound of a harf

[JakesArnoose]

As for the sound MrTim456 im sure because its digital you can change the wave form and everything - so you could get anything from a really punchy bass, right up to a synth pop type keyboard sound.

[JakesArnoose]

Really nice process and final product. From my knowledge of digital/electronica music there is a large market for artists that don't read music as such so this is perfect. It is a really nice midi controller that would look good performed live as well - I presume that would have been one of your criteria.

[MrTim456]

Interesting but sound is horribal

[vakkai]

it will fail

[djackschitt]

you should include a material and process list as well as a cost and market analysis

[nurettin]

wow man, thats really interesting. keep up the good work. congrats and greetings from mexico

[ekiporocket]

nice work! keep it up ;)

[betterpan]

this is retarded.

[betterpan]

this is retarded.

[djblueshift]

oh come oonnnn this is so doable with today's technology. i can't wait if it ever does get produced.

[tridas]

you should make also a version for kids ... :)

(y)

[obstacle555]

WHOA, thats so kewl.... I saw the key move the one way, then when I saw it move two ways(revolutionary!!), I was like whoa, way to go!

[panch85]

thats one if not the cooles musical instrument i ever seen!!!is it already in the market?

[itzsosa]

u should put more tags ontill u max for more views...just to help u out

[metalbass]

cool...