Sound artist Daito Manabe has turned Nike's Free Run+ running shoes into musical instruments. How, you may ask? Manabe, with the help form technical programmer Tomoaki Yanagisawa, outfitted the shoes with flex sensors and accelerometers. Then "processed the control signal and converted it to sound using the modular visual programming environment Max/MSP and Ableton's Max for Live". Each shoe actually gets plugged in and switched on and when bent and twisted each shoe creates a different digital noise. When watching the video it almost looks fake but each shoe is actually controlling live digital sound. The project is pretty cool but pales in comparison to some of Manabe's other amazing projects. Be sure to check them out here.
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