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December 15, 2014 Rhett Jones

While many classic Nintendo songs will be instantly recognizable to Americans of a certain age, they weren’t quite the living room staple for those growing up in Soviet Russia. As part of an Indiegogo campaign, Russian-born Sonya Belousova has put together a video where she listens to classic 8-bit themes for the first time and […]

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July 31, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Cloud Piano by artist David Bowen is an instrument played by the sky. A live feed of clouds and its patches of light and dark are interpreted into “hand” movements. As the sky changes, so do the notes played. Creative Applications explains, “MaxMSP patch uses the video of the clouds in real-time to drive a robotic device that presses the […]

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February 3, 2014 Andy Cush

Geoffrey Guterl created a hack that allows him to control an XBox 360 with a MIDI keyboard. In the video above, he demonstrates, playing Tekken — and handily defeating his online opponent! — while playing piano. As you might expect, the music produced isn’t exactly Chopin;  the limited controls and repetitive nature of gameplay make for a […]

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January 15, 2013 Marina Galperina

New York-based artist Matthew Matthew‘s project On a Human Scale has already turned the faces in the crowds of New York City and Guadalajara into a singing parts of a giant musical instrument. There’s an individual for each note on the scale, projected on a gridded screen and connected to a hacked mini-piano… Watch them get played. For the […]

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