I wonder who woke up one morning and thought “I need to build a machine that can beat out rhythms really fast and really loud on that old drum I’ve got in the garage”? Troy Rogers, Steven Kemper and Scott Barton of Expressive Machines Musical Instruments, that’s who. They’ve created Madi (the Multi Mallet Automatic Drumming Instrument) which uses various brushes and sticks connected to a controller to beat out one heck of a cacophony of noise. Read more »