Making Music with a Rubik's Cube Robot w/ Stanley Chapel

The Tok Tok cube is the successor to the Ex-Mars cube, a robotic 3x3 with a unique characteristic: each side plays a distinct note when you make a turn, meaning that this puzzle can be used as a musical instrument (in theory). Stanley and Phil are both classically trained musicians, so when Stanley was visiting us recently, we thought it would be fun to flex our composition muscles and write some music with the Tok Tok cube!

...this is probably the nerdiest video we've ever made.

Special thanks to Stanley Chapel for being in this video!
Stanley's channel @StanleyChapel

The TocToc cube is not available on The Cubicle yet, but you can still purchase the original Ex-Mars cube which has the same musical functionality:

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[ClutchCps]

This must be how non-cubers feel when they hear cubers talking.

[TedBonkers]

They need to make a toc toc megaminx, so they can play every note lol

[Subzero.]

"What instrument do you play"
"Rubik's Cube"

[ClutchCps]

Stanley and Phil have perfect pitch?! (or they're just practiced for 40 hours a day)

[raizyn]

Phil and Stanley both pulling out the perfect pitch a minute in is an insane flex

[dmr]

"What are we naming this piece?"
Phil: FLDSMDFR

[JoshuaG]

they should have totally made R and R' play different notes, and so on... that way there would be twelve notes, exactly the same number as there are in like every single piece of music

[navywolf]

I am extremely confused yet very impressed

[iamcurunr]

Now you just need a GAN 14 for the percussion

[G_B_Ent]

This is the most nerdy thing ever. And I love it.

[AColdCuber]

"do you play any instruments?" "its complicated"

[Square-one]

Can you wish me luck on my Mahler 5 concert on Sunday

[berryzhang]

This is so delightfully nerdy. I’m in love

[TedBonkers]

next challenge, you should get three or four of those cubes and try and play some harmonies lol

[fiberoeatsfiber]

I wonder what scramble playing Rush E would give...

[yinyangsepticruski]

"We're able to play... gregorian chant"

Stanley is putting the "Chapel" in his name to work

[tyronium]

I love this video it funny because i know enough music to know what is happening but i also have like no clue what's going on

[tryhardfighter]

Tok tok, if ur hearing this, we need two different notes for normal and prime turns.

[jonathanplug]

Now we can use music to scramble our cubes😮

[axo]

I saw this right after my songwriting lessons lol