GearBox, by Ulrich Brandstätter und Oliver Buchtala, is a new kind of musical loop sequencer adapting the metaphor of interconnected mechanical gears.
It enables the composition of complex beat and sound sequences with only a few interactions on a touch screen.
The combination of a playful conception and a minimalistic interface encourages both novices and electronic music experts to play and perform.
At the same time it challenges full player attention due to its powerful compositional capabilities:
- unlimited tracks in the form of gears
- with adjustable beat-counts
- which can be interconnected arbitrarily
- and follow the laws of mechanics

This video shows some capabilities of the first GearBox version that runs on a multi-touch screen.
The video is a screener captured from a Primetouch by LangAG [4] with a TUIO driver interface [5].
GearBox can be experienced at the UnUseLessNess exhibition [2] of Interface Culture [1] during the Ars Electronica Festival 2011 [3] .

Links:
[1] Interface Culture: ufg.ac.at
[2] UnUseLessNess: ufg.ac.at/Events-News.1899+M5b3175e2729.0.html
[3] Ars Electronica Festival 2011: aec.at/origin
[4] LangAG: lang-ag.com
[5] TUIO: tuio.org