Mogees use microphones to turn any surface into an interactive board, which associates different gestures with different sounds.

This means that desktop drummers could transform their finger taps and hand slaps into the sound of a marimba or xylophone.

You plug any contact microphone onto a surface - be it a tree, a cupboard, a piece of glass or even a balloon. Next, you can then record several different types of touch using your hands or any objects that cause a sound - so one sound could be a hand slap, another could be a finger tap and another could be hitting the surface with a drumstick.

The different gestures can then be associated with different sounds:

Bruno Zamborlin explains that the idea of using contact microphones comes from the desire to turn ordinary objects into percussive instruments:

"We wanted percussionists to take full advantage of electronic music without losing the feeling of touching a real surface. I would love to see people stop watching their tiny touchscreen all the time and start taking more advantage of what they already have around them. More artistically speaking, I find midi controllers a bit boring as they don't permit any relationship between the gesture of users, such as moving a knob, and its effect. Touching real surfaces allows users to experience haptic feedback on what they do and enhancing their relationship with the device."

Watch percussionist Andrea Oboe demoing the Mogees app in the free mode: