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Singing sock puppets

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These musical hand puppets by Matthew Irvine Brown look irresistibly fun to play with. Sensors in the puppets mouth measure how wide it's open and that data is converted to a musical scale.

These puppets can be tuned to sing in any scale or mode. At the minute their voices come from a small Max/MSP patch and some very basic electronics, but he can also be rigged up to be a MIDI controller.

They can help illustrate relatively complex musical theory - such as the differences between blues, chromatic and pentatonic scales - through play and storytelling

- Head over to the site and scroll down for some video of the puppets in audio action.
- Singing Sock Puppets

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Posted by: Kentaro Fukuchi on July 2, 2008 at 11:46 PM

Theremin puppet

Keromin would be the earlier instance of Theremin puppet.

http://www.keromin.com/

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ5M5NHtBf0

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