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Researchers from CSIRO have developed a wearable gadget called WIS (Wearable instrument shirt), it works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation.

Textiles and Fibre Technology engineer of CSIRO, Dr Richard Helmer explains the device: “It’s an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music making – even by players without significant musical or computing skills. It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original mp3.”

Almost every latest generation computers already have DIY music softwares, like apple's garage band, pre-installed, that demands the user to use the computer itself or a MIDI keyboard to create your own songs. Even though the wearable shirt seems to have a limited possibilities of sound generation compared to a real instrument, you're now adding intuitive physical expressions to that experience rather than making "mouse-clicking" music. That may be a cheaper and helpfull way of teaching music for beginers.

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