Calvin Harris and his Humanthesizer!

Calvin Harris promotes his new single, Ready For The Weekend, by rubbing conductive ink on pretty girls in bikinis and playing them like a synthesizer (or Humanthesizer if you will):

See how we made Calvin’s Humanthesizer! The instrument employs 15 bikini clad models painted with Bare Conductive, a new skin safe ink which conducts electricity. When the performers touch the connection completes a circuit, triggering a sound.

The instrument consists of 34 pads on the floor which have been painted with the conductive ink and connected to a computer via some clever custom electronics. The performers stand on the pads, and touch hands to complete a circuit and trigger a sound. Different combinations of pads trigger the different sounds needed to play the track.

The project is the result of a collaboration between Calvin Harris and masters students from the Royal College of Art’s Industrial Design Engineering programme.

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