Hacking and 3D printing the future of violins, in a growing community

Violins: they’re often the first example people site when talking about traditional acoustic instruments. But using new pickup techniques and rapid prototyping, that could be about to change.

Follow Friday: Musical Twitter Feeds You Read – and an Alternative Approach

Twitter has been (rightfully, in many cases) maligned as a distraction, but at times the “microblog” can keep us connected in smaller bits of time, not larger. People read while something is rendering, when they feel a bit lonely or distracted to begin with (a bit like taking work to a virtual coffee shop), while […]

- February 6, 2009

Bear McCreary: Rocking the Electric Violin on Battlestar Galactica

Film/TV composers have a particular interest here on CDM in that they tend to think creatively about style, instrumentation, and sound in their work and have to meld one technology (music) with another (film). It’s Friday night, so having resisted this long, I can no longer avoid mentioning Galactica. Composer Bear McCreary, who has scored […]

Peter Kirn - October 27, 2006

Stroh’s Strange, Early 20th Century Horn-Violins; “Digital Violin” Resource

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2006

Devil-Headed Electric Violin with Laser Eyes, Spark-Shooting Mouth, and More Electric Violins

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2006

Expanding the Violin: Diana Young’s Sensor-packed Hyperbow

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2006

16th Century Music Tech: 11-yo Sirena Huang on Design Marvel of Violin

Peter Kirn - August 9, 2006

A New Way of Learning Orchestration: Online, Free, Interactive

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2006

The Violin That Plays Itself

Peter Kirn - August 10, 2005

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