{"id":9210,"date":"2016-07-05T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=9210"},"modified":"2016-07-05T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:29:20","slug":"the-xoxx-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/the-xoxx-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"The XOXX Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever looked inside a music box, or owned one with exposed mechanics you&#8217;ve no doubt seen the cylindrical mechanism that produces the music. Similar to that of a player piano as well, now it has been reimagined into a tool to compose digitally.<\/p>\n<p>A Bill Moggridge design award winning project, <a href=\"http:\/\/xoxxcomposer.axelbluhme.se\/\">XOXX Composer <\/a>was\u00a0designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axelbluhme.se\/\">Axel Bluhme<\/a> a Swedish interactive designer. XOXX uses much the same principal of the music box&#8217;s mechanics, except instead of only being able to play one song ad infinitum, you can compose new tracks in real time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/171612791\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A ball bearing placed on the cylinder as it rotates at one rotation per second, is picked up by a sensor as the and translated to a beat. As with any drum machine or you can have the ball bearings represent any sound you assign to it, using one of 8 platters.<\/p>\n<p>Each platter can be assigned up to 16\u00a0ball bearings, with knobs for pitch, and volume for each as well. A physical way to compose digital music with MIDI out that can be used with just about any audio program. \u00a0XOXX has a deskktop application which comes with an &#8216;extensive&#8217; sample library .<\/p>\n<p>A mailing list is available to find out when the product will go on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever looked inside a music box, or owned one with exposed mechanics you&#8217;ve no doubt seen the cylindrical mechanism that produces the music. Similar to that of a player piano as well, now it has been reimagined into a tool to compose digitally. A Bill Moggridge design award winning project, XOXX Composer was\u00a0designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/the-xoxx-composer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The XOXX Composer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":9211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5136,55],"tags":[814,3,57,5489,8,9,1857,1243,35,11,588,5283,106,4234,4292,3101,24,5488],"class_list":["post-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-music","tag-16bit","tag-8-bit","tag-8bit","tag-axel-bluhme","tag-chip","tag-chip-music","tag-chip-tune","tag-chip-tunes","tag-chipmusic","tag-chiptune","tag-chiptunes","tag-composing","tag-electronic","tag-game-music-vgm","tag-music","tag-music-production-2","tag-remix","tag-the-xoxx-composer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/xoxx.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9212,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions\/9212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}