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  • The Far Side

    A new generation of visionaries are using next-level technologies to create products, projects and experiences that test the limits of design and our imaginations
  • Di Mainstone’s Human Harp

    Most of us are familiar with the concept of wearable technology, but how about the concept of a wearable harp? This is the idea behind sound artist Di Mainstone's Human Harp
  • Water Music: How Bridges can Become Instruments

    Think of a stringed instrument and you may conjure up a cello, or perhaps a ukulele, but it's unlikely that a steel suspension bridge would spring to mind. Yet for Di Mainstone the Brooklyn Bridge offered a tantalising challenge
  • Di Mainstone’s Human Harp Creates Music from Suspension Bridges

    London artist Di Mainstone is developing an electronic instrument that enables performers to make music from the subtle vibrations of suspension bridge cables
  • Best of 2013 – The Year in Design

    These 15 stories took us to places full of elegance and eccentricity
  • The Brooklyn Bridge Has Been Transformed into a Giant Harp

    Mainstone, a London-based sound and performance artist, spearheaded this Human Harp project last fall in preparation for the Brooklyn Bridge's 130th anniversary
  • Human Harp Uses Suspension Cables to Make Music

    London-based artist di mainstone observed an uncanny relationship between the architecture of a suspension bridge and the framework of a harp
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We are extremely grateful to our principal funder Queen Mary University of London and would like to thank them for their continuing support.
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