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		<title>Electric Stimulus To Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daito Manabe uses small electrical pulses to stimulate his facial muscles. via todayandtomorrow.net]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/10/electric-stimulus-to-face/</link>
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		<title>Actively Controlled Acoustic Instruments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A definition for &#8216;active controlled acoustic instruments&#8217; can be found in the paper by Edgar Berdahl, Hans-Christoph Steiner, and Collin Oldham for NIME2008 called &#8216;Practical Hardware and Algorithms for Creating Haptic Musical Instruments [pdf]&#8216;. An actively controlled acoustic musical instrument is an acoustic musical instrument that is augmented with sensors, actuators, and a controller. These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/06/actively-controlled-acoustic-instruments/</link>
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		<title>Sormina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sormina is a musical instrument developed by Juhani Räisänen. The aim of my project is to gain knowledge about instruments and their impact in the western classical music. My point is that the material quality of acoustical instruments has had a major effect in the development of music Sound is created by noise generators and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk &#8211; Sound?? (1966)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An amazing video combining the talents of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage. The video questions the definition of sound&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/05/john-cage-and-rahsaan-roland-kirk-sound-1966/</link>
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		<title>Snowball the Cockatoo Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Snowball the Cockatoo loves to get down! The Bird Lovers Only Rescue says that no one taught him how to dance, &#8216;he just heard this song and suddenly felt like dancing. When he&#8217;s really in the mood, he dances and sings.&#8217; Does this mean that Humans are not alone in enjoying listening to music, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/05/animal-dance/</link>
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		<title>DIMI Synthesizers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The DIMI synthesizers were designed by Finnish electronic music pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi in 1970. He created a number of early electronic instruments using original control methods. The DIMI-A was the first in the range standing for &#8216;Digital Music Instrument &#8211; Associative Memory&#8217; essentially an early sampler. The DIMI-O or &#8216;Optical Organ&#8217; displayed the musical notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/03/dimi-synthesizers/</link>
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		<title>Brain Computer Music Interfaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief overview of Brain Computer Interfaces in relation to music. Human brainwaves were first measured by Hans Berger in 1924. Initially the results were ignored until Adrian and Matthews backed up Berger&#8217;s results in their 1934 paper &#8216;The Berger Rhythm: Potential Changes from the Occipital Lobes in Man&#8216; published in the Brain Journal. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/03/brain-computer-music-interfaces/</link>
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		<title>Brainloop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Brain Computer Interface system, Brainloop allows a user to control devices by thinking specific motor commands. The system detects sensorimotor electroencephalography (EEG) rhythms when the motor commands are thought, so a user can navigate Google Earth without physically moving and select and manipulate tracks. A detailed paper on the project can be found in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/03/brainloop/</link>
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		<title>Magnetic Musical Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two projects currently under development at MIT&#8217;s Hyperinstruments group testing Magnetic Musical Training. The systems provide the user with &#8216;a kinesthetic preview&#8217;, to help them learn the gestures required to play the musical instrument. The project aims to find out whether motor functions can be learnt at a faster and more efficient rate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/03/magnetic-musical-training/</link>
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		<title>Vocal Learning in Bird Brains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new paper pushing the theory that the area of a birds brain that controls movement is the same region that controls singing and learning to sing. It is the first study to use Molecular Mapping to examine the areas of a birds forebrain that control movement. Erich Jarvis suggests that &#8216;spoken language areas evolved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/2008/03/vocal-learning-in-bird-brains/</link>
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