Joseph Malloch and Ian Hattwick from McGill’s Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab collaborated with a team of dancers, musicians, composers and choreographers to develop a family of prosthetic musical instruments that creates music through the movement of dancers. A set of digital instruments for a live music and dance performance, called Les Gestes. The 3D printed instruments developed are a bending spine extension, a curved rib cage that fits around the waist and a visor headset with touch and motion sensors. Each instrument can be played in a traditional hand-held way, but can also be attached to the body, freeing a dancer to twist, spin and move to create sound. “Just as we’ve seen an explosion of DIY musical instruments and interactive art based on open-source electronics, perhaps we will see an explosion of DIY mechanical devices which create new ideas of how we use our body to interact with technology.” [Via our friends at Dezeen.](http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/12/instrumented-bodies-by-joseph-malloch-and-ian-hattwick/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed:+dezeen+(Dezeenfeed)&utm_content=buffer2bea6&utm_medium=twitter)