A symphony meeting with an eggplant broom-this is the real "play" Music!

Have you ever had a broom and fancied you could pop a guitar? Have you ever seen people on TV playing with a variety of homemade instruments, but feel that they have to design a too much trouble? Now these expensive platter can be done, you can even join hands with your eggplant, broccoli, wash basins together to open a symphony meeting ...

It sounds ridiculous, but recently Kickstarter a team called Dentaku to make a "music creation kit"--ototo. It looks like a less-than-visible converter, but once connected to USB and its own developed sensors, Ototo will become a MIDI controller, can turn anything into a musical instrument, light source, touch, breathing can also become a way to play music.

As for performance? It may not necessarily make you burn, but it's more than enough to make you laugh or be pleasantly surprised. This is one of the intro videos, with paper cartons, water pipes, vegetable plants, various musical instruments:

Ototo offers 7 different sensors, which means that you can not only get sound effects through "touch" instruments, but also control pitch and length by the light, slide up and down, press the intensity, and breathe the rhythm. The image below is a sliding voice changer, find the broom and connect it? You can get different pitches by sliding the broom handle to different distances (is it a bit like a trombone?). ）

The Dentaku team said the sensors work by capacitance sensing, Ototo will measure the capacitance of the item, and then the person's touch will allow the capacitor to increase, so it produces a different sound. After the product is shipped, the Dentaku team will also open up the code for the product, hoping to inspire community creativity and musical inspiration.

Dentaku has done more than 40 prototypes, which have been used in the public workshop of the London Media Academy, as new music attempts to spread to the public, especially teenagers and children. They expect to ship in bulk this June, and 120 pounds will be able to book a full set of equipment on Kickstarter.