Skoog

For people with the surname Skoog, see Skoog (surname).

The Skoog is a customizable electronic musical instrument that has been designed to be inclusive and accessible – especially to those unable to play conventional musical instruments.^[1] Its primary market is special needs education and music therapy.^[2]

Skoogmusic

Original author(s)	David Skulina & Benjaman Schögler
Developer(s)	Skoogmusic Ltd
Initial release	2008
Stable release	Skoogmusic 1.5.1
Operating system	Macintosh and Microsoft Windows
Type	Special needs education, art installations
License	Proprietary
Website	http://www.skoogmusic.com/ [dead link]

The Skoog itself is a soft cube that plugs, via USB, into a computer running its accompanying software, which uses physical modeling technology^[3] to allow direct correlations between the expressive gestures the player makes on the Skoog and the sound that comes out of the software. The current version of the software features twenty one such instruments. The Skoog can also be used as a MIDI controller, as well as a sampler.^[4]

See also

• Beamz – Laser-based music device System for making music by disrupting laser beams