Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes.

Though Patatap has somewhat limited educational uses, it is a lot of fun. On your desktop computer, a touch of a key will activate a specific sound file and a related animation. It is possible to hold down several keys at once to create a variety of interesting patterns and musical interactions, but as with other such tools, holding a key down will result in a overly quick repetition of sound and graphic.

  • It is also HTML5 compatible, so it will function in your tablet’s browser. On your tablet, sounds and animations are triggered by the placement of your fingers on the screen.

Patatap requires no previous musical training and is highly intuitive. Despite this, the tying of specific musical cues to specific keyboard keys (or screen locations), and the variety of sounds, allow for the construction of some interesting sound collages.

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