This [http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2009/03/gallery_instruments...|article] in Wired magazine describes David Wessel's SLABS project, a new controller developed at CNMAT that won a prize in the [http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/09/mar/9/guthman.shtml|Guthman Competition] for new musical instruments held at the Georgia Institute of Technology.