TUIST instrument combines guitar, bass and drums

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Rui Pereira, another NYU ITP student, doesn't think that Guitar Hero gets you close enough to feeling like a rock star. That's why he invented the TUIST (short for Transformable Uber Interface for Stardom), an electronic instrument that you can hold like a guitar, upright base, or drum set. The noise that comes from the machine varies based on the way you hold it— you don't have to press any buttons to change its settings.
According to the artist (pictured here), the TUIST is for anyone from "8 to 80 years old… passionate for music but incapable of playing musical instruments (though always desired to be a super star)." Pereira counts himself as part of that group. The samples that play when you press buttons or the touch panel on the instrument sound a lot like the noises that come from this laser harp. The music is accompanied by feedback in the form of a digital visualization— if you let the bright, crazy patterns play behind you, they'll help you to feel like a rock star. If you face them for too long, on the other hand, you could end up having a seizure.
Click Continue for a short video of the instrument in action.


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