Researcher Turns His Assistant Into a Human Drumkit :: The human body is a conductor of electricity—a fact exploited by touch screens and, now, a novel way of generating music :: from an article by Christopher Mims in Technology Review :: 12/20/2010 ::

Daito Manabe has a history of conducting quirky, painful experiments in which he administers shocks to the human body — usually his own — powerful enough to cause involuntary muscle contractions. He uses electricity, music, computers and video to expand on what were literally the earliest scientific experiments ever to be recorded photographically — the electrical shocks to the face of Parisians administered in the 19th century by Guillaume Duchenne.

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… Manabe has integrated with a touch-sensitive control system his earlier experiments in syncing the movements of his own face to music by administering shocks powerful enough to induce involuntary muscle contractions.

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