ALEX INGLIZIAN: My name is Alez Inglizian, and I'm the studio assistant here at the Experimental Sound Studio, and I helped out [PH] Steve organize this event.

[ALEX PERFORMING ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

This one's fun because it's more playable with this button pad, so this -- the original toy that this was just one of these toys that had like a bunch of different sound effects on it, so I've got animal sounds [ALEX TRIGGERS ANIMAL SOUND EFFECTS], and they're all -- I can pitch them as well [ALEX PITCHES ANIMAL SOUND EFFECTS]. There's also vehicle noises [ALEX TRIGGERS VEHICLE NOISES] and tool noises [ALEX TRIGGERS TOOL NOISES], and then there's also melodies.[ALEX PLAYS SOME MELODIES].

[ALEX PERFORMING ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

Well, there's these four positions on this rotary switch so I just kind of have it memorized, but I love this because I could play a drum beat and actually play this as a keyboard with rhythm along or something...

[ALEX PERFORMS WITH HIS DEVICE]

...and then I can also run this through the [SOUNDS LIKE] gate sequencer as well.

[ALEX DEMONSTRATES HIS DEVICE AND GATE SEQUENCER]

I don't know if you can hear that. It's getting really noisy in this room.

[ALEX PERFORMS WITH HIS DEVICE AND GATE SEQUENCER]