Hi list, I just found this nice link at the Debian Weekly News:
"Debian as musical Instrument. James Patten and Ben Recht developed a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Knoppix is used as operating system." Homepage is at http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/audiopad/ which also has a very nice 20MB Quicktime .mov file explaining how it is controlled and how it works (mplayer can play this .mov without problems once you have the codecs installed). "Sweet!" :-) Greetings, Frank