Taylor Deupree and Joseph Branciforte on transcribing an electronic classic
"Highlighting inconsistencies": when it came time to transcribe Taylor Deupree's seminal 2002 electronic drone album Sti.il for acoustic instruments, everything...
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Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
Terje Isungset makes musical instruments out of carved Arctic ice
Acoustic instruments we think of largely in wood, string, gut, metal. Terje Isungset has spent decades making music out of...
Crank it up: A noble and elegant simulation of playing French Horn for Playdate
We truly live in a golden age of indie game development, for we have a breathtaking, achingly realistic simulation of...
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...
Get more doom harp in your life with this harpist’s distortion pedal reviews
Harpist Emily Hopkins is a runaway harp YouTube sensation - yes, those are still being born. A high point: reviewing...
Watch a mesmerizing, delicate Matmos improv, with nurdles
Let's kick off the weekend with some inspiration - all the possibilities that can abound in the physical stuff around...
Instrumental inventions, from LEGO microtonal guitar to deconstructed tuba, at Guthman prize
Bored by the Grammys? Try the Guthmans instead. The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition has selected its award winners, as musicians...
