Introduction

Welcome to Caxixi! Using the Caxixi application, you can play custom percussion instruments with your Samsung Windows Mobile phone. You can practice on your own, or record your own songs and drum loops that you can share with others.

What is a Drum Circle?

A drum circle is a group of people playing percussion instruments together. But instead of performing a set piece of music like an orchestra, playing in a drum circle involves sharing and extending a common rhythm. Drummers of all types and skill sets (from beginners to experts) gather together to improvise and collaborate collectively as one voice.
Drum circles are a great method of synchronizing a group of people with the power of musical rhythm. When you play a common rhythm with others, it not only entertains, but attunes you with the other members of the circle. There have historically been several uses of drum circles by various groups:

• People of various faiths celebrate the solstice by forming drum circles and drumming on the longest or shortest day of the year.
• Native American shamans facilitate drum circles as a method of communication with the spirit world.
• Corporations sometimes use drum circles as a method of team building, to bond together members of an organization.
• Drum circles are used as a meditation tool to promote health and wellness.
• Groups often form at public parks or other meeting places for general recreation.

Drum circles can be casual groups with no moderator. They can also be led by a facilitator, who coordinates the group, encouraging the players and helping to focus and guide the rhythms.

What is Caxixi?

Caxixi (pronounced ca-shi-shi) is an application written for Samsung Windows Mobile phones such as the Omnia. It plays the sounds of a variety of percussion instruments. The sounds are triggered by shaking the phone using a variety of gestures. But Caxixi is more than just a solo instrument. It also includes a studio, which you can use to arrange backing tracks, record your playing, and mix them together into your own songs. The studio enables you to save recordings and send them to others, and even export them as WAV files to use for ringtones. The Caxixi application is named after the African percussion instrument made of a woven basket filled with dried seeds or small pebbles, and closed with a drum head. Brazilian natives believe the Caxixi can be used to summon good spirits and ward off evil ones.