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This is fucking neat.
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Back in The Old Days, we made them out of paper and filled them with curse words:
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I knew Ray Weisling in the mid-1970s when he was a music student, studying electronic music composition at Cal Arts, but haven’t heard anything about him since then until now. I remember that he had invented this device–he had one in his dorm room. They had a Gamelan ensemble at CalArts at that time, and Ray took an interest in it. Apparently, in pursuit of that, he has lived in Indonesia since 1980. Gamelan is a form of traditional ensemble percussion music played by the Balinese, Sundanese and Javanese peoples (well worth checking out if you’ve never heard it). http://mediapressmusic.com/all-composers/weisling-raymond/
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Unless you expand the display capabilities, I believe it is only fuck neat.
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This is the kind of content BoingBoing used to excel at. Happy mutants doing interesting, inspiring things- giving readers new ideas and creators the attention they deserve. Hope to see more.
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Wesleyan has a World Music Hall to house its gamelan - said to be the second oldest in the country, if I recall correctly. I enjoyed a full scale, all-night-long traditional shadow puppet/gamelan performance there on a belly full of mushrooms.
(Edit: and I want one of these machine NAO!)
Yeah but where are the swears?
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During lockdown, my kids ran out of construction paper and asked me to order more. Sure, kids. Good clean fun and a break from screen time. Now we have hundreds of these fortune tellers stacked in towers around the house.
I didn’t realize when you stack a bunch of these, you get this wibbley-wobbley chain that looks like a sandworm!
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