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Turn Your Friends Into Music With the Strange Magic of Playtronica
If you’ve scrolled through Instagram recently, you might have seen an advertisement for a company called Playtronica. It offers a unique and almost unrealistic-sounding product — a controller called TouchMe that claims to “turn human skin, water, or flowers into a musical instrument.”
The TouchMe device works in coordination with an online synth at Synth.Playtronica.com, so you need a PC, smartphone, or computer tablet to make it work. It has two “handles” on each side, allowing two people to hold the device and produce music together after picking a synth online. You can also hold the device with one hand and touch something else that conducts electricity to produce a melody. Pretty cool, right? “I think Playtronica teaches you how to think,” Vincent, one of the founders, says in Playtronica’s YouTube documentary. “It’s easy to do what you know — [play] guitar or bike. But to build something that doesn’t exist, that’s interesting. It opens up new horizons for a person. Limitations give birth to new meanings in musical experience.” Playtronica also has another device, the Orbita, in the works. As we write this, the musical gadgets are on sale starting at $69. You can learn more about them and watch video demonstrations at Playtronica.com.
Can this possibly be real? Apparently, it is.
TouchMe was the brainchild of Sasha Pas, a Russian performance artist who fell in love with helping kids make music at the Sonar Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain. He dreamed up the idea of making music from objects and using that technology to educate kids, and he put together a team of artists, musicians, and engineers to help make those workshops happen. Sasha founded the Playtronica collective in 2013 along with a musician/DJ, drum teacher, and tech expert. They put together workshops, installations, and performances, and eventually debuted devices like Playtron and TouchMe to the public. The Playtron device includes a controller, a USB cable, and a bundle of 18 alligator clips. You can hook those clips up to anything — a strawberry, a leaf, or a friend’s finger — then touch the object to produce music.
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