Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for making music with any physical or virtual object, including any article of manufacture or object of nature, wherein one or more sensors communicate with a synthesizer or other signal processing device. The sensors may be in any physical arrangement to the object being played including remote from such object. The object which is played may be physical or virtual. In one embodiment the communication means is a wireless network, the synthesizer is small and portable and the played object is portable, ergonomic and of a non-traditional industrial design. In another embodiment the played object is mobile phone.