Percussa, a small electronics company in Brussels, have designed cubes that are a modular live performance instrument that let you shape sound, create music and perform live through hands-on interaction with wireless intelligent objects."AudioCubes" are glowing, physical blocks that hook up to a computer and map to musical structures, allowing you to play with multiple electronics at the same time. Electronics embedded within each cube allow the blocks to sense one another's positions and orientations, as well as the blocks' distance to other objects, such as a hand. They are networked, and scalable, so you can use any number of pieces (up to 100) together, as long as your audio hardware budget can handle it: a single block costs almost 300 bucks, though sets of multiples bring the price per block down.
AudioCubes offer new ways to interact with your existing audio software, beyond what is possible with classic knob boxes and trigger pads. They can be used for simple filter sweeps as well as infinitely complex setups in which the musical information they generate will depend on how the objects interact with each other and with their user.
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