All The Instruments In This Excellent Rock Band Are Played By Actual Rocks

All The Instruments In This Excellent Rock Band Are Played By Actual Rocks

Video: Last year, artist Neil Mendoza turned a hamster running in a wheel into a talented sketch artist. This year he’s pulled off an even more amazing feat by turning inanimate rocks into a talented (literal) rock band that plays a surprisingly decent cover of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”.

The band features a series of electromechanical devices that make music by firing small rocks at aluminium keys, spinning rocks and hurling them against a piece of marble, or by simply slapping larger stones with strips of fake leather. The band’s lead is actually a computer running a MIDI player, but if you’re curious about more of the technical details, Mendoza has created an entire Instructables tutorial detailing how he built it.

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