Created by artists Jon Large & Spencer HW Marsden for Walk the Plank’s Art Car Parade Tone Float is a milk float transformed into a gentle melodic instrument with its cargo acting as a tuned percussion. The float will have rows of bottles hanging from steel beams in he rear cargo section. Each bottle will have an electronically controlled striking hammer, a contact microphone, a white LED and is filled with liquid.

The electrical hammers are controlled by a midi sequencer via a MIDI to voltage converter. When a MIDI mote is sent, the hammer is activated as is the LED, which may be placed within the liquid inside the bottle. The bottles are tuned to pitch by the volume of liquid within. Tone float is the name of the Kraftwerk’s precursor album.

Click here for some coverage we received on Rock FM showing a mini Tone Float!