Wu-Tang Lego: Raw Interlude

The White Stripes - Fell in Love With a Girl

One of my favorite music videos ever.

Legos Galore!

Like any red-blooded American, I spent a fair share of my youth playing with my favorite Danish export: Legos. Tonotopik's previous post reminded me why I love those little blocks. They are so versitile that people all over the world are finding uses for Legos beyond simply building with them. Case in point: Lego USB hubs, routers, USB drives and a fully functional Lego Star Wars fooseball table (though any rough play would surly destroy the table like the Death Star did Alderaan. Check 'em out.

It should be worth noting, however that none of these products are officially licensed by Lego. Apparently, Lego is too busy rocking out to give us what we really want

Yoshi Akai, Mad-Scientist/Musician

It is hard to explain exactly what Yoshi Akai does. (He has no affiliation with the music instrument company, or small green dinosaurs.)  I suppose its safe to say he makes art that makes music. Akai melds analogue products of yesteryear with digital products of yesteryear, throwing in some random items for fun. For example, he experiments in mixing turntables with 8-bit synthesizers, which get their input from a revolving Swedish cracker.

Here's my favorite invention of his. A 3 channel, 8-step synthesizer redesigned to take Lego pieces as input.

Another good invention are these gloves with sensors in them which create music based on motion and proximity. If he added some lights on the tips it would make for hours of pure entertainment.

As Akai says, this is "building sound more than playing sound."  For more goodies, check out www.yoshiakai.com