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Jaime Oliver’s amazing membrane controller

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Jaime Oliver’s amazing membrane controller

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Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses a unique elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera reads the position/shape of the head as it’s deformed with the hands and then translates that into data that can trigger sound events. [Thanks, Alberto!]

Silent Drum

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