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Freqtric Drums is a drum machine enabling a performer to interact directly with the audience. Both the performer and the audience drums wear rings connecting them to an interface. Skin contact is detected using Electro Dermal Activity (EDA) and human skin resistance, which are used in Polygraphs. The drum sounds are triggered by the drummer touching an audience members hand (or even nose or forehead). It’s MIDI enabled to allow any drum sounds to be used. There are more videos here [1] [2]

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Toshio Iwai demonstarting a TENORI-ON at Artfutura 2005.

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Spencer Kiser has created a turntable that lets you arrange and play colours in real time. The spinCycle uses a camera to analyse the colours (red, yellow or blue) on the turntable before outputting sound and a visual display.

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Developed by James Patten and Ben Recht, the audiopad tracks the position of objects on a tabletop and converts the movement into sound. The display provides visual feedback for the performer and the audience. The system is based on an earlier device made by James Patten called SenseTable.

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A short interview with Dan Deacon followed by performance of his track Ohio on NBC.

Originally I posted this on the forum with a link to the .mov file. The Standard OIl Records site seems to be down, although the link is still active.

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Another post pulled from the old forum, Duracell is a great drummer using electronically triggered drums to play covers of Turrican, Space Harrier and more! A great live act, and videos are now on youtube.

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Outtakes of Tom Baker making recordings for adverts and speaking his mind!

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