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		<title>Musical Cactus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cactus in the video below seems to be special &#8211; it can be played!   Yes, this cactus is a playable musical instrument.   In the video below, you see someone playing ...


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		<title>Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ThinkGeek has released a T-shirt with something resembling a Moog on it &#8211; that you can actually play.  The &#8216;synth&#8217; on the shirt features 5 different sampled sounds plus 8-voice polyphony (!).  It ...


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		<title>Now that&#8217;s what I call MIDI!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Archaeology is an organization that &#8220;seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture.&#8221; 
Basically, they want to save early internet content to acknowledge its importance, and save ...


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		<title>Body Drum</title>
		<link>http://www.SynthGear.com/2010/strange-weird/body-drum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve covered Daito Manabe before, demonstrating his DIY project where he stimulated muscles in his face to the beat of music.  
With the help of Masaki Teruoka, Daito has created a new project, which ...


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		<title>Theremin &#8211; Electronics Illustrated 1960</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your pleasure is a scan from Electronics Illustrated&#8217;s June 1960 issue, describing the Theremin.  It&#8217;s a great read &#8211; they almost sound like they&#8217;re describing some strange alien device, and it definitely gets ...


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		<title>Mouth-controlled synthesizer</title>
		<link>http://www.SynthGear.com/2010/software/mouth-controlled-synthesizer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marek Bereza is an industrial/interaction designer, and came up with a fantastic control system called the Speakatron.  It&#8217;s a mouth-controlled softsynth!
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		<title>DIY mind-controlled synth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Schneider is the singer for the indie rock band &#8220;The Apples in Stereo&#8220;, hailing from Denver, Colorado.  Not happy with trying to play synthesizers with and actual keyboard, Robert modified a Mattel Mindflex(The ...


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		<title>Washing machine drum machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Shoes in the dryer&#8221; is one of the best ways to describe a beat that is going off-kilter, or the sound of a DJ who just can&#8217;t seem to get two songs beatmatched.  That ...


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		<title>Hipdisk &#8211; the world&#8217;s most undignified musical instrument</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hipDisk was conceived and developed during Craft Australia&#8217;s three-week summer residential lab focused on wearable technology.   The idea is that the hipDisk is meant to be a &#8220;a wearable interface that extends ...


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		<title>Velosynth: the hackable, open-source&#8230; bicycle synth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure entirely what to make of this, but it sure got my attention.  Velosynth is a DIY kit for &#8220;an open-source bicycle interaction synthesizer&#8221; that attaches to your bike, playing sounds interactively.
Made ...


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