The Drumtar is a portable performance instrument and musical composition tool. Its four pads trigger drum sounds –or any sound for that matter– on a MIDI enabled device.

The Drumtar interfaces with a program written in Jitter. Dancers in a video clip execute moves based on beats that the user plays. The result is an interactive dance routine set to live music. The experience is similar to a game for the user and a performance for the audience.

The brain of the Drumtar is a PIC chip. It uses four force sensing resistors, as the drum pads. It has a bank switch knob so that a total of 20 sounds can be accessed at a time. More technical notes.

There’s a silly funny video as well.