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	Air guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Air guitar is the act of pretending to play guitar, consisting of an exaggerated strumming motion and often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching.
		Air guitar is generally used in the imaginary simulation of loud electric guitar music, especially rock, heavy metal, and so on.
		Headbanging is often used in conjunction with an air guitar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_guitar (407 words)

	Air Guitar - Uncyclopedia
		Air guitars are similar in shape to normal guitars, with the notable difference that they are made entirely out of air.
		Air Guitars have evolved beyond recognition and the latest models are self-tuning and contain on-board, complex amplifier emulators to enable them to sound like any available amplifier thereby reducing pre-performance setting up times.
		The legendary Rebecca Nichols is arguably the greatest Air Guitar player to have lived and her untimely passing at the age of 32 of a heart attack brought on by over-exertion during an awesome performance of the Ritchie Blackmore guitar solo in Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express in the late 1970's shocked the Rock nation.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Air_Guitar (2136 words)

	BBC - Cambridgeshire Music - Air Guitar Championships with great prizes
		Air guitar, my sad little friends, is a skill usually perfected, and indeed practised, in the privacy of one's bedroom.
		Closet air guitarists are positively encouraged to come out of the wardrobe and twang their invisible instruments for the delight of the crowds.
		This intellectually challenged event is open to all air guitar playing aficionados and each contestant has the stage for three minutes, during which time the air guitarist can illustrate their skills to the music of their own choice.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cambridgeshire/music/2003/07/air_guitar_gallery.shtml (733 words)

	Rock 'n' roll fantasy - Salon
		Though the Air Guitar World Championships have taken place for seven years in Oulu, Finland, Americans have yet to make their presence felt at this favorite teen-bedroom art form, even though we may very well have invented it.
		Masterblaster, a graying former air guitar champ from the '70s, loiters downstairs by the bar and offers to be my patron saint for the evening.
		Remember, air guitar is not a sport, but a state of mind." With this, he pats me on my shoulder and sends me on my way.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/2003/06/16/air_guitar/index.html (1012 words)

	- AIR GUITAR THAïLAND - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Air guitar is a declination of karaoke and consists on miming a guitar player without any instrument.
		In Air Guitar playing, all people are equal regardless of race, gender, age, social status or sexual orientation.
		Air guitar competitions really allow the audience to be involved in the event : the participants express themselves on stage without having any special knowledge or popularity status but only their imagination and charisma, Air Guitar questions artist’s status.
	www.airguitarthailand.com (245 words)

	Halfbakery: Compressed Air Guitar
		The air in the guitar would be compressed for a greater volume of air, driving the speaker for a louder if not unique sound.
		The soundboard on the guitar vibrates the air in it.
		Resonator guitars (Dobro, National, etc) have the bridge mounted on the metal resonator plate, which is suspended flexibly on the body; it functions in the same way as the table of a regular guitar, while the body has relatively little effect on the sound.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Compressed_20Air_20Guitar (1343 words)

	Virtual Air Guitar - Technology
		The guitar moves with the perfomer, allowing for small and large guitars for small and large people, or even playing near your feet or behind your neck (as long as the gloves are visible).
		The guitar meta language and the musical intelligence module make the sound model invisible, allowing it to be controlled with musical concepts instead of delay line parameters.
		After this, the sound is directed to a physical model of a guitar speaker cabinet, and finally, some common guitar effects are added to the sound, such as equalization, reverb and delay.
	airguitar.tml.hut.fi /tech.html (862 words)

	CNN.com - Air guitar legends strike a chord - August 27, 2002
		The 7th annual world air guitar championships have taken place in Oulu, Finland, proving you don't have to be able to play a note to be a world rock star.
		The art of air guitar is traced back to the 1960s when breathtaking electric guitar solos by bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin inspired teenagers throughout the world grab their tennis rackets and mime their idols.
		The first air guitar championship was held in Oulu in 1996.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/24/finland.guitar (568 words)

	The US Air Guitar Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		US Air Guitar is the official air guitar association of the United States and is responsible for operating the US Air Guitar Championships, official Regional events and specialized championships such as the Collegiate Tour.
		US Air Guitar is devoted to taking our nation's unofficial pastime out of the bedroom and putting it up on the world stage.
		Whatever the reason, air guitar is so ingrained in the fabric of American life that it has become an almost instinctual response.
	www.airguitarusa.com /story.html (213 words)

	Catching serious air guitar - The Boston Globe
		The Boston regional for the US Air Guitar Championships drew an enthusiastic crowd to see who would compete in the national finals in New York next month, and possibly travel to Finland for the world...
		The Boston regional for the US Air Guitar Championships drew an enthusiastic crowd to see who would compete in the national finals in New York next month, and possibly travel to Finland for the world championships in August.
		The contestants proved that air guitar is becoming a more serious business in the United States, as it already is in Europe.
	boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/05/21/catching_serious_air_guitar (399 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Air play ambitions in rock riff riot
		The ninth annual Air Guitar World Championships - where would-be rock gods attempt to impress with an imaginary instrument - are being staged in Oulu, Finland.
		Ron is Belgium's entry in the Air Guitar World Championships after impressing judges in his home nation.
		For the uninitiated, air guitar is the art of pretending to play along to a rock solo or a chord sequence with nothing but an imaginary guitar and the appropriate facial expressions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3597564.stm (683 words)

	i love air guitar
		What really struck me was although all the competitors were united in their love of guitar music, they each had their own reasons for taking part, whether that was to promote peace or subverting stereotypes or just for the fun of it.
		Amanda Griffiths is researching a PhD at the University of Salford in Air Guitar, and has been invited by the organisers of the World Championships held in Oulu, Finland to give a lecture on the finer points at an air guitar training camp on 24th August 2005.
		Amanda got the air guitaring bug after entering a competition in 2002 under the pseudonym Kiki Troupe and, to her amazement, winning.
	iloveairguitar.blogspot.com (1667 words)

	Air guitarists’ rock dreams come true - info-tech - 28 November 2005 - New Scientist
		The Virtual Air Guitar project, developed at the Helsinki University of Technology, adds genuine electric guitar sounds to the passionately played air guitar.
		The Finnish team created a library of guitar sounds based around the pentatonic minor scale — a progression commonly used for rock guitar solos — in order to create the right sound for their virtual instrument.
		As a follow-up, the researchers are working on a version that will be compatible with a normal webcam and computer, thus giving wannabe rock stars the opportunity to practise their art in the privacy of their bedroom.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn8383 (552 words)

	Air Guitar Nation (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Air Guitar Nation has been selected to play at the American Film Institute's 2006 film festival in Los Angeles.
		Björn Türoque, one of the stars of Air Guitar Nation was on Conan promoting his new book, TO AIR IS HUMAN.
		The makers and stars of AIR GUITAR NATION (winner of the audience award at SXSW, and official selection at Tribeca, Silverdocs, Full Frame, Britdoc and Edinburgh) headed to a small resort town in northern Michigan known as Traverse City for Michael Moore's second annual Traverse City Film Festival.
	airguitarnationmovie.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 (1224 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Wales \| Student aims for air guitar PhD
		She began her studies in January and is preparing to give a lecture at an air guitar training camp in Finland.
		After the contest, she was invited to discuss women in air guitar on the radio programme, where she met Professor Sheila Whitely.
		When she announced to her former colleagues at a housing advice centre that she was leaving to pursue her studies in air guitar, "the whole room fell silent".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/4737829.stm (532 words)

	The Dionysiac state of American air guitar. - By Dan Chiasson - Slate Magazine
		Now remove the guitar from your mental picture and behold the Northeast regional semifinals of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, held recently in New York City at the Pussycat Lounge, on a still-dusty block near the World Trade Center site—and, luckily, open to an audience of longtime air guitar fans like myself.
		But the Shred and his colleagues aren't just competing for the extra-large souvenir beefy-T that awaits tonight's winner or the personal glory of reaching the national finals—they're hoping to represent our fair nation at the international finals in Finland, the land where competitive air guitar (as well as competitive wife-carrying) was born.
		But it clearly took the advent of the electric air guitar to infuse the instrument with its present heady potion of sex and menace.
	www.slate.com /id/2084248 (1630 words)

	Why 'air guitar' is the new karaoke \| csmonitor.com
		In recent years, the air guitar has become a cult phenomenon, sparking air-eoke tournaments in cities across the nation.
		Undoubtedly, the most impressive offshoot of the air-guitar craze is the invention of the Virtual Air Guitar, a computerized pair of gloves developed by students at the Helsinki University of Technology that monitors a player's hand movements and pumps accompanying electric guitar riffs through an amp.
		To win the title of His or Her Airness, competitors have to be controlled, in sync with the music, dressed for the part, and have to convince the audience that the show couldn't be better even if real instruments or musical talent were present.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0630/p11s01-almp.html (657 words)

	Air Guitar Australia
		Often referred to as a teenage boys right of passage, or karaoke on caffeine, air guitar has come age if the standard of competition in the Regional and State Grand Finals is anything to go by.
		The level of performances at the State Grand Finals was unbelievable and the standard nothing short of exceptional as these masters of mime engaged in the abstract performance art form of air guitar to truly appreciative crowds.
		I was impressed by the elements of expertise in the tuning department, in the timing department, in the showmanship department, in the sheer daring department, most of all in the sheer dedication to the art of air guitar.
	www.brianmay.com /queen/wwry/OZ/airguitar.html (1391 words)

	Guitar Mania Air Guitar
		These are visions often seen in Cleveland on a perfect day; the kinds of clouds children love to search for images of animals or objects.
		Guitar Mania, a public art project in Cleveland, featured 10 foot high decorated fiberglass replicas of Fender Stratocaster guitars, designed and painted by celebrities and artists.
		After the exhibition, the guitars were auctioned off, with proceeds benefiting these charities.
	www.funtocollect.com /airguitar.html (157 words)

	Air Guitar Québec
		Air Guitar Heroes sont aussi connus sous le nom de Antartika, grand gagnant du concours de air guitar en groupe du dernier Festival Juste pour Rire.
		Air Guitar Heroes est aussi connu sous le nom de Antartika, grand gagnant du concours de air guitar en groupe du dernier Festival Juste pour Rire.
		Le gagnant de la soirée sera même, en quelque sorte, le champion canadien de air guitar parce que le concours qui devait se tenir à Toronto en juillet n'aura pas lieu faute de "budget" des organisateurs.
	airguitarquebec.com /index.htm (1835 words)

	Acoustics of the Air Guitar
		In a brief communication in nature, researchers from UNSW announced today a new discovery in the acoustics of the air guitar.
		"In an air guitar, the strings and body both have the same specific impedance as the radiation field, so the transmission should be maximised.
		It is speculated that the absence of standing waves may be related to the observation that, on the air guitar, even a beginner can play extremely rapid passages with ease.
	www.phys.unsw.edu.au /~jw/airguitar.html (388 words)

	pcomp: Air Guitar (MIDI Lab)
		You "strum" the guitar by interfering with the beam between this LED and the detector.
		I also drilled a hole in the guitar body and added a potentiometer with a knob on it (just like a real electric guitar).
		The values from the potentiometer are used to change the volume of the notes generated using the guitar.
	itp.nyu.edu /~cf831/pcomp/archives/2005/11/air_guitar_midi.html (644 words)

	Oulun Musiikkivideofestivaalit - Oulu Music Video Festival - Air Guitar World Championships - Ilmakitaransoiton MM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Air Guitars roared in Oulu for the tenth time already - the world peace ideology of the air guitar will be spreaded for the next year by Michael "The Destroyer" Heffels from Holland.
		Other judges evaluating the punishers of invisible guitar alongside Torvinen were Amanda Griffiths, who is making her Ph.D. at Salford University on Air Guitar playing, as well as Kotiteollisuus group frontman Jouni Hynynen and two organisers of national competitions: Magnus Langli from Norway and Nigal Agha from The United Arab Emirates.
		The ideology of the Air Guitar World Championships is that all the bad things in the world would disappear if all people played the air guitar.
	www.omvf.net /2005/ilmakitara.php?lang=en (628 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| How to be a rock star, virtually
		There are usually only two things that stop most adolescent males from being guitar "rock gods" - lack of a guitar and a total lack of talent.
		All of which means that the player can reserve most of his (or perhaps her, though this seems to be a largely male pursuit) energies for the important part of air guitar.
		When the virtual air guitar reaches the shops in 2007, remember: this is more than just an excuse for having a go at that fiddly bit in your favourite rock anthem.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4694482.stm (742 words)

	Air Guitar Nation (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America...
		By the end of the film, I was rooting whole-heartedly for all the competitors as they battled for the World Air Guitar Championship.
		I walked out of the theater with the sounds of great music in my head and a newfound respect for air guitar in general.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0799915 (338 words)

	Halfbakery: Electronic Air Guitar Simulation Gloves
		The problem is that most air guitarists can't actually play, so this system would result in rhythmic cacophony.
		I boiled down the air guitar problem to measuring the bending of fingers, developed optical sensors I sewed to a gardening glove, and applied for a US Patent.
		I coded up an air guitar using these gloves with my Atari 400 that had three digitally controlled oscillators.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Electronic_20Air_20Guitar_20Simulation_20Gloves (1002 words)

	Virtual Air Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is an instrument literally played in the air: no strings, no keys, just you, free to perform.
		Playing air guitar is like playing rock guitar, only without the guitar or any musical skills.
		In the Media - Air Guitar in the media and public events
	airguitar.tml.hut.fi (239 words)

	Amazon.com: Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy: Books: Dave Hickey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although his diction is often highfalutin (he was doing a doctoral thesis about Foucault and Derrida way back in 1967), his rhythms aren't, and he's more than fluent in colloquial English--I mean, the guy can flat-out write.
		"Air Guitar" is Hickey's characterization of critical writing, it's direct relationship to its subject(s) being of approximately equal import as a person playing air guitar in his living room is to a rock concert.
		In the words of Vladimir Horowitz, the concert pianist, it is "the words without the music." That being said, it's damned interesting, all the same, especially when approached this way.
	www.amazon.com /Air-Guitar-Essays-Art-Democracy/dp/0963726455 (1910 words)

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