I don't know about you, but my band and I have a recurring joke that we can plug in and tune into our fruit in the van, hearing myriad scores and compositions of our own concoctions, some subjectively known as L'Orange: Suite Deux and Beet-le-mania.
But now, after reading an article from On The Media, the possibilities of plugging your studio beats into your favorite snack may be an actual possibility.
The Ototo, which has been featured on Classicalite, recently garnered enough funding via its Kickstarter to go into some serious production. The device works with sensors, allowing them to trigger a synthetic module that allows even the simplest of objects to become musical instruments, including your fruit.
Its counterpart, the Mogee, uses a mic instead of sensors, and with the resonance of most objects, the small microphone can make a symphony out of a pencil rolling down a davenport (or "desk").
And get this, there's a glove that allows anything to become some kind of percussive device. Michael Jackson may have passed just a little too early; he could've been the official spokesman.
But in the end, there are few instruments capable of producing the synthetic sounds a MIDI keyboard can maneuver, and even less that stringed instruments and pedals can come up with.
For the hell of it, though, check them out and maybe pick one up if you're feeling particularly interested.
