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A DIY violin with a spring reverb tank inside
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital instrument age – builders rediscovered novel acoustic and electroacoustic inventions, too. Take this gorgeous example by builder/composer/musician David Hilowitz. And it all started with a broken amp part.
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“Singing Daxophone” makes incredible eerie quasi-vocals out of an experimental instrument
The “daxophone” is a new acoustic instrument invented in the 80s. Its creator was a German typographer. It’s name is derived from “badger.” It sounds like an half-human, half-alien vocal. And virtuoso Kazuhisa Uchihashi has been able to coax a whole album out of it – with jaw-dropping results.
Peter Kirn - July 8, 2022
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At Instruments series by Morphine Records, physicality and improvisation meet invention
In a world when so much seems virtual, remote, simulated, and yet oddly pre-scripted, Berlin’s Morphine Records turned in the month of October to something else. It was musical technology in raw and spontaneous form – intimate encounters, together in a room.
Peter Kirn - November 1, 2021
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The beauty of wind organs, and how to make one yourself out of recycled materials
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2021
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An injury left Olafur Arnalds unable to play, so he turned to machines
Peter Kirn - June 10, 2019
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Tested: Chromaphone 2 has kinder, gentler acoustic modeling
Peter Kirn - April 10, 2016
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