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Hacking the orchestra
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Tesla coil music: ArcAttack's performances use two custom built "singing" Tesla coils, which have been hacked to produce tones when creator Joe DiPrima modulates the current.
courtesy arcattack
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The Earth Harp is the largest stringed instrument on the planet: the strings connect from a central body onto the architecture of a hall, or the geography of a landscape, to turn the world around it into an instrument. Played with a pair of resin covered gloves, it sounds a bit like a cello, apparently.
Courtesy William Close
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The ultimate instrument? How about a bowl of ice cream. Designers Carla Diana and Emilie Baltz embedded sensors in 3-D printed cones so that a signal was sent out -- and turned into sound -- when a tongue touched the creamy goodness.
Courtesy Emilie Baltz
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Making music with shadow puppets? The Cave of Sounds invites people who have never met to make music together, by getting hands on with 8 original instruments which use movement, shadow and light to create sound.
Tim Murray-Browne/Music Hackspace
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Singer-songwriter Imogen Heap has performed ethereal versions of her tracks, playing an instrument of her own creation -- housed in a glove. "I wanted to be able to play the computer as expressively as I can play the piano," she says.
Fiona Garden/Mi.Mu gloves
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Crowdfunded "all-in-one musical invention kit" Ototo allows you to turn anything into an instrument, although the inventors seem to think you'll mostly be plugging in vegetables.
courtesy dentaku london
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Vinyl Terror and Horror -- real names Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen -- have hacked the turntables... to pieces. Their scarred, smashed and restitched vinyl create all types of noise, occasionally interrupted by the vinyl's intended soundtrack.
courtesy vinyl terror and horror
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Giving a new meaning to playing a games console, Thom Uliasz and Justin Emerson have been hacking electronic devices together as Burnkit2600 since 1997. They specialize in reprogramming consoles and old games cartridges to make previously unheard sounds.
Courtesy Burnkit2600
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American alternative rock troupe They Might Be Giants are fans of the hacked household appliance: they employed a circuit-bent Speak & Spell toy to rejig one of their hits.
Courtesy Texas Instruments
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The AlphaSphere was envisioned as a new way for musicians to interact with music software -- by playing with a ball. Each pad creates a different noise: what noise is up to you.
Courtesy nu desine
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The Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee is a computer keyboard where each key denotes a change of pitch (rather than a fixed pitch, as it would on a piano keyboard.) A user selects a scale and a key -- then plays.
Courtesy Leon Gruenbaum
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The Artiphon Instrument 1 was invented by Mike Butera in Nashville. The multi-instrument is powered by an iPhone and can be played as a guitar, violin, bass or keyboard.
Courtesy Artiphon
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In 2011, the MO was the winner of Georgia Tech's Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. The MO allows people to turn everyday objects into their own digital musical instruments, which can be controlled through different types of motion. The MO was featured at the MoMA gallery in New York.
IRCAM (CNRS-UPMC)/Nodesign.net/ Da Fact /Atelier des Feuillantines/Grame/Voxler
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The You Rock Guitar is an affordable digital MIDI guitar. It was designed for home or studio recording and connects with a broad range of computers and mobile devices. Sort of like a Guitar Hero controller, but for grown-ups.
