Her favourite instrument was a green lampshade, which she would strike and then manipulate the sound.

It can be played as if it were a piano but it allows the player to manipulate the sound by increasing the pressure on the soft silicon surface.

Further innova-tion allowed musicians to manipu-late samples in the same way that they could manipulate a sound wave in a synthesiser.

This allows a sound editor or sound designer to heavily manipulate a sound to meet his or her needs.