Calvin Harris became the first musician to play his music on a human synthesizer, with his new single Ready for the Weekend. The instrument uses 15 bikini clad models painted with Bare Conductive, a new skin-safe ink which conducts electricity. When the performers touch the connection completes a circuit, triggering a sound.
The instrument also consists of 34 pads on the floor which have been painted with the conductive ink and are connected to a computer via some clever custom electronics. The performers stand on the pads, and touch hands to complete a circuit and trigger a sound. Different combinations of pads trigger the different sounds needed to play th track. The project is the result of a collaboration between Calvin Harris and masters students from the Royal College of Art's Industrial Design Engineering programme. Apart from being clever technology, it's also quite a clever bit of PR for the single. WIth nearly 500,000 views on youtube, it's got a lot of attention. Viewers who hear the tune during the video, who may not have heard the song before, might then want to hear the full song. I already loved the song but was intigued to compare the humanthesizer version to the original.
The instrument also consists of 34 pads on the floor which have been painted with the conductive ink and are connected to a computer via some clever custom electronics. The performers stand on the pads, and touch hands to complete a circuit and trigger a sound. Different combinations of pads trigger the different sounds needed to play th track. The project is the result of a collaboration between Calvin Harris and masters students from the Royal College of Art's Industrial Design Engineering programme. Apart from being clever technology, it's also quite a clever bit of PR for the single. WIth nearly 500,000 views on youtube, it's got a lot of attention. Viewers who hear the tune during the video, who may not have heard the song before, might then want to hear the full song. I already loved the song but was intigued to compare the humanthesizer version to the original.
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