Awesome concept+execution! Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing when I was a grad student studying tangible interaction 2-3 years ago. My advisor loved

Awesome concept+execution! Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing when I was a grad student studying tangible interaction 2-3 years ago. My advisor loved the idea of foreign objects (a kenyan sculpture, a japanese wood block carving, etc.) being imbued with local music (in his own words: "computationally-mediated arts and crafts, rooted in the traditions and material expressions of specific regions and cultures"). Sadly, my code forever remained buried deep on our SVN repo, and not even a paper came out of it. Congrats to the author for doing something that I didn't do- actually putting your work out there! :)