Experimental musical instrument the "Bowafridgeaphone" (bow a fridge a phone). Leila Bela is an Iranian-born American avant-garde musician and record producer from Austin, Texas. The Japanese multi-instrumentalist and experimental musical instrument builder Yuichi Onoue developed a two string hurdy-gurdy like a fretless violin, called the Kaisatsuko, as well as a deeply scalloped electric guitar for microtonal playing techniques. Solmania from Japan, and Neptune are noise music bands that built their own custom made guitars and basses. Solmania modifies their instruments with extra droning strings. Neptune built guitars out of scrap metal and make electric lamellophones. The bass is built using a VCR casing
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 2009, a special oversize one-shot comic written by Rauch with art by Paul Hanley. Again, in conjunction with the movie's 1984 release, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension" interactive fiction video game was released for Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS and ZX Spectrum. It was created by Scott Adams and published by Adventure International. In late 1998, the Fox Network announced development of a "Buckaroo Banzai" TV series entitled "Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries", but it was never released. The special edition DVD contains a short computer animated sequence