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Slideshow: Making Music With a Long Tube

What happens when a woman sings into a metal shaft that is covered with electronic switches and resistors, and hooked up to an Apple laptop? Some very strange, surprising things. Alexander Gelfand reports from New York.
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Brenda Hutchinson rehearses elements of her program for the evening.

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A later version of the Long Tube features a rotating cuff.
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Onstage at Roulette, Hutchinson gives a private demo of her Long Tube prior to a Dec. 2 performance.
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A close-up shows the force-sensing resistors, electronic switches and rotating cuff that make up the Long Tube's gestural interface.
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Hutchinson selects samples from her laptop using the Max/MSP programming environment.
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This drawing shows an early version of the Long Tube that used piezoelectric sensors.