Car Music Project
May 21, 2008
The project began in 1994 as an attempt by Bill Milbrodt to “turn a car into music that can be expressed in written mold and, therefore, performed and interpreted by more than one musician or group of musicians.” More specifically, Milbrodt wanted playable musical instruments created from his own ca…
Hang - a steel drum
May 21, 2008
A hang is a steel drum. It is struck with the fingers, the sound is generally much softer than a steel drum, and can be played in many ways to produce a large variety of sounds. The hang was devleoped in 2000 in Bern, Switzerland by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer (PANArt Hangbau AG) and introdu…
The best of Theremin
May 21, 2008
This a great theremin cover of a song by Gnarls Barkley. Just great.
[Source] Alexander Zakharov
Aeolian harp
May 21, 2008
An aeolian harp (or æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is “played” by the wind. It is named for Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind. The traditional aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sounding board, with strings stretched lengthwise across two bridges. …
vOICe Java Applet
May 21, 2008
Voice - is a free online soundscape synthesizer and sequencer. that Java applet allows you to draw your own 64 × 64, 16 grey-tone image and immediately take in the corresponding 64-voice polyphonic visual sound being synthesized on the fly! See and take in how The vOICe mapping works for your inp…
Glass Armonica
May 21, 2008
The glass harmonica, additionally known as glass armonica, ‘”hydrocrystalophone” or simply armonica (derived from “armonia”, the Italian word for harmony) is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction, mak…
Stylophone
May 21, 2008
The Dubreq Stylophone is a miniature electronic musical instrument invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis. It consists of a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus - each note being connected to a cheap voltage-controlled oscillator via a different-value resistor - thus closing a circuit. Some …