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The Hang Drum: Real and Virtual
Do you like the sounds of steel pans and gamelans? Then you might really be intrigued by the sound of the Hang, a percussion instrument created and hand-built by the Swiss company PANart (Felix...
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Interviews with Roger Linn
Instrument designer and musician Roger Linn is perhaps most famous for inventing the first drum machines (in the early 1980s) to use digitally sampled drum sounds, the LM-1 and LinnDrum. In the years...
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The Sound of Vuvuzelas
“I hate it when I go to a vuvuzela concert and then people start playing football! It’s so annoying!” – YouTube viewer In last month’s Wire magazine, Marcus Boon wrote a thoughtful end piece on the...
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On Techlust: Native Instruments’ Maschine
I’m at Tekserve, in the audio department, and I spot a beauty: Native Instruments’ Maschine, a hardware-software rhythm machine. I move in for a closer inspection. Its top is made of metal and I run...
View ArticleInterface: On The Ergonomics Of Musical Instruments
“Most of the works are not about something–they are not trying to tell something–but they are more made like interfaces for the viewer.” – Cevdet Erek Recently I came across the music of the Turkish...
View ArticleA Forest Xylophone Plays Bach
This is a charming video, but it also illustrates some deeper ideas: • Composition. It shows how a piece of music can be rendered on an unusual instrument and remain recognizable. • Instrument. It...
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Resonant Thoughts: Jacques Attali’s “Noise” (1977)
“In music, the instrument often predates the expression it authorizes…it contributes, through the possibilities it offers, to the birth of a new music, a renewed syntax.” -Jacques Attali, Noise, p. 35.
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