Eric and his Sonic Banana

I'm always slightly paranoid about being hoaxed on Music Thing. I was very, very dubious about the reality of Godfried Willem Raes, and I'm still not convinced that Belinda Bedekovic is kosher. So I'm pretty sure that Eric Singer's website is a trail for some wacky BBC2 comedy series (perhaps a spin off from Look Around You) The pitch is that Eric is "a Brooklyn-based musician, artist, engineer and programmer with 20 years of arts and multimedia programming" who has created a Max/MSP controller called the Sonic Banana, which he plays in these video clips, while staring deep into your soul. I think the site designers jump the shark when they claim that Eric reached the semi-finals of Junkyard Wars as part of a team called "The Brooklyn Benders". That's just silly. (Thanks Ray!)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

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http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/junkyard/bio/bio_26.html

He really was on Junkyard Wars. There is the proof. Heh.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:45 pm

Honestly doesn't seem all that clever to me. Can be recreated using virtually any midi controller modded to take flexion sensor signals. EoWave sells them for 40€ each. The Banana thing has four by the looks of it.

But the stare is priceless!

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:02 pm