strange musical instruments

This is another absolutely amazing video from sound designer/composer Diego Stocco:

Few weeks ago I visited a luthier looking for instruments parts, I had an idea in mind for an instrument I wanted to build. My curiosity was to hear the sound of violin, viola and cello strings amplified through the body of a double bass. I came up with a quadruple-neck experimental “something” that I thought to call Experibass.

To play it I used cello and double bass bows, a little device I built with fishing line and hose clamps, a paintbrush, a fork, spoons, a kick drum pedal and a drum stick. I hope you’ll like it!

Thanks to luthier John Wu for providing me the parts, even though I warned him that I was probably going to create a “monster” : )

You can see more details at Stocco’s Behance portfolio site. See Stocco’s Vimeo site for more examples of his musical sound design.

This is a short demo of the Xylobot, a robotic xylophone created for Berlin Music Hackday, held on September 18-20 at Radialsystem V.

A custom Java app receives MIDI data from the step sequencer and controls the Arduino over a serial connection. The board then triggers the servos to hit on the xylophone.

The whole construction was built in under 24 hours and is mostly made of hot glue and wood.

Xylobot was created by Ramsey Arnaoot & Robert Böhnke.

Image: eskimo_jo

Saturday Synth Porn: Little Boots (& the malfunctioning Tenori-On!) at the Wrongbar, Toronto, September 14, 2009.

via the Synthtopia Flickr Group

Jean Michel Jarre playing his laser harp on Second Rendez-Vous. Read more…

This is a performance of J.S.Bach’s Toccata in Dm, by the Stylophone Orchestra of Great Britain.

via hschle69:

Johann Sebastian Bach-Toccata in D-minor by Stylophone Orchestra of Great Britain. Played by Harald Schoenbrodt; Thomas Muellen; Ryan Clark;