http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/the-dow-piano-transforms-the-stock-market-into-sound.html Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:53:23 +0000 CNN Money creates a musical translation of the ups and downs in the 2010 market. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/ion-audio-peripherals-use-iphone-as-a-digital-core.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:03:19 +0000 The small but powerful iPhone has a new set of accessories that help make it easier to interact with the device.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/pulse-assisted-piano-playing.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:30:26 +0000 Concert Hands, a new product for teaching music, hopes to assist musicians struggling to learn the piano by gently guiding fingers to the correct keys with a system of finger sleeves, pulses and software.  The rather cumbersome series of wires and wrist pilots will introduce music to those that learn best through direct muscle memory. The system uses software that converts a song file into a key combination for the piano that a controller box then distributes to the wrist and finger pilots.  The repetitive motions stimulate muscle memory and apparently work well with anyone from 8 to 80 yearsRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/free-pianos-beg-londoners-to-be-played.html Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:20:14 +0000 As part of this month’s Sing London festival, thirty pianos—part of artist Luke Jerram’s ‘Play Me, I’m Yours‘ traveling art tour—have been dispersed throughout the city, encouraging spontaneous pedestrian music. The instruments, either donated or purchased on the cheap off eBay, are free to use and available to anyone who wishes to take a seat—and each piano comes with a songbook of location-inspired music. The project even retains a bicycling piano tuner to keep each in shape. The concept has been executed in Sao Paulo and Sydney, and Jerram plans to repeat it in Bristol next.]]>