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Music

Generate Music and Light From Cell Phone Frequencies

Using your fingertips.

Multi-media artist, Robert Mathy, has come up with a device for the hands that converts light frequencies into acoustic sound. In the high-tech, Fantasia-esque video below he experiments with the Light Frequency Fingertips (LFFs) using several mobile phones and a flashing bicycle light.

Outfitted for the thumb and forefinger, the LFFs pick up on the various frequencies of the electronic devices, some more powerful than others, and convert them to different pitches of sound.

Any slight undulation of the hands creates a subtle change in melody, giving you the power to mix and fade your own light-fueled symphony (kind of like creator Hojun Song’s guitar-robot).

We’d like to invite performance artists, EE, to come over and try the LFFs out on a disco ball….or a strobe light. That would make for an enchanting evening.