San Francisco artist Walter Kitundu's website is slammed today. The builder of the hybrid turntable/harp instrument he calls the phonokora — a kora is a West African instrument with 21 strings — has received a $500,000 MacArthur grant. Kitundu talked about his art with LAist last year. After the jump, a video demo of the phonokora.

(Photos by Walter Kitundu)

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