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Now we are really living in the future:

Miya Masaoka is a composer, koto player and inventor of the Laser Koto -- a tripod-mounted laser array that she plays by passing her hands through the beams, triggering a variety of sampled and processed sounds from her G4 PowerBook. Each flick of the wrist and twitch of the finger is interpreted as a stroke on the instrument's virtual strings.

"As someone who is creating new pieces for the instrument, I just wanted it to be able to make lots of new sounds. And extended techniques almost sound electronic anyways," she says.

There's also a video of her playing her Laser Koto.

Check it out!

Japanese musicians so love to experiment with music. Can't but love this.

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