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We’ve got to admit, we don’t have any idea what to call this hack. Artist [Graham Dunning] refers to it somewhat dryly as the “Mechanical Techno method”, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. We’re ...

There’s something intrinsically human about taking mundane objects and converting them into instruments: The rings of a slice of wood become the grooves of a record, Jell-O becomes a band–and, for two ...