Making music with bikini models

Posted by anthonykuo , Aug, 2009 @ 10:14 am

The human synthesizer, or the “Humanthesizer” is a joint creation by electronic musician Calvin Harris, Sony Music UK, and Bare conductive body ink, which turned 15 bikini-clad ladies into a giant Arduino-powered synth capable of playing Harris’s track “Ready For The Weekend” though Max/MSP and Ableton Live. Each patch is triggered by one of the girls closing a circuit with her hands or feet — you can see the “wires” painted on their arms and legs if you look closely — and the final performance bounces right along in that blurry space between dancing and playing. You have to see it to understand. [Engadget]

Incidentally, the conductive nature of our body is precisely how those body fat reading scales work – they pass small currents through your body to test the resistance – the more fat, the higher the resistance.