Ableton Push Prototype: Off The Grid
The Ableton Push is a landmark musical instrument that offers organic tactility and creative expression previously not seen in electronic music production. Powerhouse is custodian to one of only 2 Ableton Push Prototypes, designed and built by Jesse Terry. This prototype was constructed with LEGO, allowing for modular user testing, leading to optimal ergonomics and functionality.
The Ableton Push has been used by artists such as Flying Lotus, Jlin, Pete Townshend from The Who, Timbaland, Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, KUČKA, The Roots and Snoop Dogg.
‘The prototype of Push is like the way I work with samples: I chopped up a bunch of other products and sampled the parts of them that I wanted.’
Push was reconciling those worlds of using my hands, playing rhythmically, playing with nuance and swing, and the world of the computer, which can process audio in such cool and different ways.
![Pear-shaped back made up of 11 ribs; two-piece [cedar] soundboard with unusually-shaped soundhole and ivory purfling; very worn wooden saddle with metal bridge; black wooden bridge pins with ivory inlay; guitar-like hardwood neck meets body at 8th fret; rosewood fingerboard; brass frets extend onto soundboard; two mother-of-pearl fret dots; curved headstock with flat finial and six metal machineheads with yellowish knobs (one knob missing).](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/wkgts1b4/production/cb2f60d801453164009de2f87b0e0d2ea2eccca5-5270x7905.jpg?w=1920&h=1280&q=82&fit=fillmax&crop=entropy&auto=format)
