Sound maps. Books. Otr. Npr music. Music radio. Tiny desk concerts. First listen. iPlayer Radio. BBC Radio 4 - Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere. BBC Radio - Neverwhere (listen before april 2013) This Music Is Bananas (Really) Fresh produce has never been hipper. Need proof? Check out this video of Brooklyn-based songwriter-producer-artist extraordinaire Jonathan Dagan, better known as J.Viewz, playing a beautiful — and just plain awesome — cover of Massive Attack's 1998 hit "Teardrop" on a variety of fruits and vegetables.
J.Viewz is using a cool little circuit board called the MaKey MaKey (pronounced may-kee may-kee) that allows you to hook almost anything up to a keyboard. hide captionThe MaKey MaKey uses basic principles of circuitry to turn any object — even an apple — into a keyboard key. Jay Silver/Flickr The concept is simple. Your computer can't tell the difference between a signal coming from the MaKey MaKey and a signal coming from an actual keyboard. And if you've got a virtual piano keyboard program like this one pulled up on your computer, then you've just created your own unique musical instrument. Cool stuff, right? We certainly thought so, and plenty of other people seem to agree.