Mopho DJ uses your iPhone to trace turntable movement (as opposed to your movements)

We need to admit, we never considered this one — and it’s pretty, pretty slick. Rather than using time-coded vinyl to interface your turntable along with your computer as with Final Scratch Pro or Serato Scratch, Nicholas J. Bryan’s Mopho DJ uses an iPhone. That’s right, our man at Stanford University literally affixes his smartphones to his decks via a perspex disc and a few kind of adhesive. The smartphones each run an app which sends accelerometer and gyroscope data to a pc, which then adjusts playback of your music accordingly. It’s still a piece-in-progress at the present, but when you’re in Oslo the 1st week in June be sure you try it out on the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) conference. This can be definitely the type of iOS location tracking we will get behind! Test it out on video after the break.