


Within a year, the prototype was built and contained a hardware controller and music cartridges that held data for each song. After Gabriel and Almgren became partners in the early 1990s, they built a team to develop a hardware device prototype that could work with music cartridges much like video game cartridges. A musician and computer programmer, he had long wanted to make composing and recording music accessible to the average person. He had developed a system to control individual music loops and later a hardware configuration that involved projected light beams and sensors.

The original concept came from prototypes Gabriel developed while a student at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands.
