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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute - Celebrity Keynote
January 24th, 2006 at 9:48 pm

The Giant Guitar

Instead of stringing one guitar with 6 strings, here are 6 single string guitars, combined into one giant guitar, played by 6 people.

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[Six String Sonics, The]

Since there will be 6 hands manning the strings, the group is capable of reaching many more chords and melodies. Here are just a few examples of compositions by Six String Sonics, The …

It’s probably best to listen to the music produced by using this instrument (demo1, demo2, demo3). There’s also a video clip. It’s played by cool Japanese indie artists.

Nowadays, any instruments can be "played" on computers, which gives me the feeling that all musical instruments in the world are converging into a small box. Six String Sonics, The, in contrast, decomposes and expands a personal instrument into a social/collaborative space.

This work also won an award at Japan Media Art Festival.

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