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Milk-truck music

Scaling up from the usual MIDI-to-solenoid designs - the Tonefloat milk/music delivery team plays the bottles while mobile.

Originally commissioned by Walk the Plank for the inaugural and very first Manchester Art Car Parade, the 'People's Prize' winner >> tonefloat << continues to entertain and delight with its sub-lime fusion of form and function, revelling in the grand tradition of the English Eccentrics.
Milkbottles have a pretty harsh tone when empty, but when filled with 'milk' to different levels a semblance of tonal scale emerges, and the fun begins...

Artcar stars from across the pond - maybe they'd consider flying the truck in for Maker Faire Austin?

- Tonefloat's site

- Tonefloat on Flickr

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Posted by: on June 24, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Maybe we could cross the pond itself, on a raft of plastic milkbottles....

Cheers for the posting Colin.

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