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'Balancing Act' is an interactive sculpture you can make music with, by sitting, standing, walking or dancing on the disks. You can play solo, or join in a duo or trio with friends or strangers. An opportunity to meet, play and connect, this series of coloured disks, each fixed to a central pivot point, offers a test of balance. Imagined as an interface for collaborative music making, this new genre of synthesizer invites participants to use their entire body to play music. When the disk rests against the edge of the base, it plays a note. By walking around the edge, one can string the notes together into a melody. When the disk is parallel to the ground, a melody is unlocked and plays for as long as the disk is balanced. The longer you keep your balance on the disk, the more the melody changes.