It is a pretty exciting time to be alive as a musician. there are some really fun software developments maturing into great potential instruments. The Nintendo DS game platform with it’s touch screen interface is a small yet potentially amazing gadget that is starting to offer a bunch of great music programs. Check out Electroplankton! This is an audio interface basically programmed with different species of Electroplanktons that you manipulate with the pen stylus to create different sound patterns. Second check out the new DS Jam Sessions from Ubisoft. This one lets you configure a guitar which you strum with the pen stylus…how fucking great is that for long plane rides!

Electroplankton demo video showing what each set of plankton do-

Electroplankton- Official Site

DS Jam Sessions Official Dorky Video-

Ubisoft- Jam Sessions Official Site

One more thing…just because these are cool it does NOT mean they are a rock n’ roll replacement for the guitar. I submit this as proof. Look how not cool you will look trying to play along with your bandmates. I assume the reason this guy did it was he was having a REAL hard time competing with the apparently band mandated facial hair his comrades are sporting.

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