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New Instruments: The Silent Drum Controller

Jamie Oliver, a PhD candidate in Computer Music at UCSD recently won 1st prize in the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology with his innovative new instrument, the silent drum controller, which uses visual cues from an elastic drum head to shape and control sampled sounds. Check it out:





With her penchant for using cool new sound technologies, I expect to see this used in a Bjork performance in the not-too-distant future.

--Alan Wiley

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