The Singing Skeleton Pilot SSP 04

Another one spotted at Ars Electronica.

The Singing Skeleton Pilot consists of a "skeleton guitar" you must strap onto your back, a skeleton toboggan and a monitor that shows a video of the skeleton guitar's run through an Olympic Bobsled Track.

You lay belly-down on a flexible sled and make a high-speed run down a projection of a bobsled track. A motor-driven wind-wheel that activates the instrument's strings replaces the headwind that occurs during a real run. Which strings it strums depend on your movements in steering the toboggan. The curves to the right strum the bass strings; the curves to the left strum the treble strings. As long as you don't make grave steering errors, you experience the run and the soundtrack of the guitar almost identically to a real run in the toboggan course's ice channel.

Project development at Linz's University of Art, 2004.

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