Patent ID: 6525252
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: G10H,Y10S

Abstract:
A device for composing and arranging music comprisinga sensor device having a plurality of receiving positions arranged in a two-dimensional array of which one dimension represents a temporal domain of the music, a plurality of blocks each being suitable for being releasably arranged at each of the receiving positions, each of the blocks belonging to one of a plurality of sub populations of blocks and having features being detectable by detecting means for detecting to which of the plurality of sub-populations of blocks a block arranged at a receiving position belongs as well as the position of said receiving position and for producing an output accordingly, wherein each block represents a predetermined musical feature, said representation being dependant upon the sub-population to which the block belongs as well as the position of the block on the sensor device along the second dimension of the two-dimensional array, the device further comprising play-back means for playing music according to the detected positions and features of the block(s) arranged at the sensor device as well as according to the predetermined musical features.