Who'd have guessed gimp masks were the key to unleashing the most phantasmagoric music humankind has ever set ears on?
No, I'm not talking about a startling new direction for Sigur Ros.
A lunatic called Mick in a place called London has attached electrodes to his bonce to create his own symphonies using simply the power of his deranged mind.
The device doesn't work a third of the time. This is possibly more to do with his skewed brain than the equipment he is using.
Nevertheless, here he is in a BBC video thinking up a sequence of notes whilst staring at the most distracting screensaver known to humanity.
There is a plus side. People who are less abled can make music, and this could open great new avenues for music therapy.
But for every plus, there has to be a minus. That can be found in the last line of the BBC news article, about a new video game using the gimp headset:
"It enables players to vanquish villains through thoughts and emotions."
If I had that ability, there'd be carnage. More carnage, even, than Mr Tran's trip to a toy store.
Mick from London, you are my new hero.
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