It looks like a toy - but it's a Reactable, an electronic musical instrument that produces sounds depending on how the musician moves objects around the surface of the table. The instrument comes with more than 40 objects, each of which has a different function and ability to interact. As if that's not enough, performers can modify the behavior of the objects by touching the table surface - so, if you want to change the oscillator waveform of a particular object, just draw a new waveform next to that object.
Bjork saw a Youtube demonstration of the instrument and liked it so much that she incorporated it into her last tour, and Rolling Stone named it the Hot Instrument of the Year in 2007.
Where was I when all this was happening? Oh yeah, Music Theory II.
The Reactable in action:
For a step-by-step demo, here and here.
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