PAX Prime ’11: Harmonix Making iOS App That Lets You Make Terrifying, Horrifying Music

We’re at Harmonix’s Reverse Q&A Panel at PAX, and they’ve just shown off a new iOS app that will let you record yourself or friends making various sounds and turn it into a song — kind of like those awesomely-edited YouTube videos with one guy a capella-ing all the parts to a song.

Called VidRhythm, it will be available on any iOS device with a camera (iPhone 4 / 3GS, iPad 2, iPod Touch). The audience-driven demo they gave here involved a lot of cats, and will be fueling my nightmares for weeks to come.

The interface is dead-simple — you use your device’s camera and microphone to record yourself or a friend making different musical sounds (like a bass drum, snare, tom, meow… and purr?). The app then puts all these recordings together and sequences them into a sanity-crushing bit of audio that you can export and scare people with.

VidRhythm will be out sometime in September, for $1.99. I will be buying this DAY. ONE.