Sure, Tom Hanks's iconic FAO Schwartz piano scene in Big was pretty awesome. But two decades later Scottish electropopper Calvin Harris has one-upped Big with an even bigger project: the world's first-ever "Humanthesizer," aka human synthesizer.
While Calvin's sonic experiment may seem like a sly excuse to hang out with 15 swimsuit models (rather than the lab-coated "boffins" who originally came to him with the idea), the Humanthesizer stunt does have a legitimate, scientific purpose of sorts. This is how it works:
A special electric body ink, developed by students at the Royal College Of Art in London, allows a current to be ****** through the body without causing the usual painful electric shock; then, when the bodypainted participants position themselves on a series of customized electronic synthesizer pads on the floor and touch each other's hands and limbs, the currents generate synthetic sounds.
The song itself sucks, but the technology this guy uses is pretty cool.
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