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You'll Need Giant Hands To Play This 9ft Drum Machine

Call your friends: it takes a team to tame this 9ft TR-909.

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Earlier this month, we reported on the miniature olloclip 'gallery for ants' in Huntington Beach, California, but halfway around the world, a Scottish audiovisual studio was working on its exact opposite: a drum machine for giants. Designers Ray Audiovisual had been planning to build the 9-ft Roland TR-909—the classic analog drum machine employed  by everyone from Kanye West to friend of The Creators Project, Plastikmansince June, and finally, the interactive sculpture has come to fruition. They team was kind enough to post their assembly video to their Tumblr, and immortalized it with a celebratory jam session— giant or otherwise, this analog device has still got the groove. Now, all the team needs is to borrow Michel Gondry's giant hands

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To keep up with further developments regarding the 9ft TR-909, visit Ray Audiovisual's website.

h/t Fact Magazine

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