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Hear a Handsfree Guitar Play a Haunting Melody

Kiss your calluses goodbye with Taylor Brook's Guitar Machine.
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Kiss your calluses goodbye: the motion-sensing Guitar Machine can be played with a simple turn of the wrist. It's a new take on the theremin, and you can watch it take center stage in "Idolum," a haunting new musical collaboration between the TAK ensemble, Hooke Audio, and award-winning composer and inventor Taylor Brook. Anyone who's ever watched a laser harp performance or googled "theremin hero" should recognize Brook's precise hand movements hovering over the Guitar Machine, which he invented last year.

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Follow Brook's Guitar Machine building process on his website, and listen to more from the TAK ensemble here.

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