Think of it as an a capella studio that lets you record loops and build layers of beats and harmonies over the existing recording.
It's a more sound design approach... Record, looping, pitch shifts, time stretching, anything to generate happy accidents.
But what musically speaking at least could be better than hearing a fragment of a record, looped and EQ'd to an inch of its life, atop a massive, lumbering kickdrum?
Using only body movements and hand gestures, she's able to record loops by opening her hands, adjust the volume by either making the "shh" gesture or forming a horn with her fingers, and filter sound by bringing together or extending her arms.
The features that remain in place are the ability to set capture intervals for stills or video according to intervals of a user's choosing, as well as the ability to tap to store the last five minutes of captured media, so that it won't be cycled through and discarded as the gadget continues its recording loop.
The recorded loop paths will be used later for determining the number of repeat copies.
"I'd always made weird little cassette tapes since I was a kid; I had my own way of layering things that was just recording loops by hitting pause and record, over and over again.
'Early electronic music,' explains Mark Ayres, a friend and fellow Doctor Who composer, 'was random atmospheres and sounds generated by electronic equipment, or sounds created by tape manipulation - recorded, looped, re-pitched, and physically cut to create music.
In New York, Steve Reich was experimenting with tape loops in pieces such as Come Out, in which he recorded, looped and layered the voice of a young black boy who had been beaten up in a Harlem police station, vividly capturing the politically charged atmosphere of the times.
Mobile phone records looped other guys into the drug network.
