Musician James Hill Converts a Ukulele into an Entirely New Instrument
Armed with a pair of humble wooden chopsticks, a .74 cent plastic comb, and a few other minor modifications, Canadian musician James Hill can convert his ukulele into a ridiculous beat machine. Hill...
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Disarm: A Mechanized Orchestra of Instruments Built from Decommissioned Weapons
As part of his ongoing effort to transform weapons into musical instruments, artist Pedro Reyes (previously) constructed a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm, the collection of eight new...
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Polish Concert Pianist Builds a ‘Viola Organista’ Based on a 500-Year-Old...
Viola Organista built by Slawomir Zubrzycki Codex Atlanticus by Leonardo Da Vinci, (page 93r) Buried in the pages of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous 15th century notebooks, amongst the sketches of flying...
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High-Speed Strings: Video Trickery Creates Wobbly Slow Motion Effect
This brief clip demonstrates what happens when you film an upright bass while synchronizing the vibration of the strings with the frame rate of the camera. The resulting video makes it appear as...
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A New Acoustic Instrument That Creates Sounds like a Digital Synthesizer
The Yaybahar is a new acoustic instrument designed by Istanbul-based musician Görkem Şen that emits music right out of a retro sci-fi movie, a remarkable feat considering there isn’t a bit of...
View ArticleMusician Guilhem Desq Gives an Electrifying Hurdy Gurdy Performance
On a list of things I most anticipated sitting down to cover on Colossal today, the hurdy gurdy probably wasn’t in the top thousand topics, but then I stumbled onto this video and had to share it. The...
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San Francisco-Based Company Builds Guitars From Recycled Skateboard Decks
Nick Pourfard is 22-year-old artist, musician, and skateboarder currently combing his multiple talents into one package: guitars built from reclaimed skateboard decks. The San Francisco-based...
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Photographer Stephen Orlando Captures the Movement of Musicians Through Light...
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude Photographer Stephen Orlando (previously) captures the nearly imperceptible movement one makes when quickly sliding a bow along strings, the senses typically drawn to the...
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Projected Figures of Humans and Animals Play the Keyboard Through Dancing...
“Andante” was created by MIT’s Tangible Media Group as a way to promote an understanding of the way that music is rooted in the body, an experience that transcends more than just the ears. The group,...
View ArticleHaunting Music Created With Two New Instruments
Remember the insane marble machine instrument that took the internet by storm a few months ago? The designer, Martin Molin of Wintergatan, just built two new instruments and recorded a video where he...
View ArticleThe Apprehension Engine: An Instrument Designed to Play the Music of Nightmares
Movie composer Mark Korven wanted to craft the perfect sounds for horror movies, but the instruments he needed didn’t exist, and he was tired of using the same digital samples. To produce the original...
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Disarm: A Mechanized Orchestra of Instruments Built from Decommissioned Weapons
As part of his ongoing effort to transform weapons into musical instruments, artist Pedro Reyes (previously) constructed a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm, the collection of eight new...
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Polish Concert Pianist Builds a ‘Viola Organista’ Based on a 500-Year-Old...
Viola Organista built by Slawomir Zubrzycki Codex Atlanticus by Leonardo Da Vinci, (page 93r) Buried in the pages of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous 15th century notebooks, amongst the sketches of flying...
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High-Speed Strings: Video Trickery Creates Wobbly Slow Motion Effect
This brief clip demonstrates what happens when you film an upright bass while synchronizing the vibration of the strings with the frame rate of the camera. The resulting video makes it appear as...
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A New Acoustic Instrument That Creates Sounds like a Digital Synthesizer
The Yaybahar is a new acoustic instrument designed by Istanbul-based musician Görkem Şen that emits music right out of a retro sci-fi movie, a remarkable feat considering there isn’t a bit of...
View ArticleMusician Guilhem Desq Gives an Electrifying Hurdy Gurdy Performance
On a list of things I most anticipated sitting down to cover on Colossal today, the hurdy gurdy probably wasn’t in the top thousand topics, but then I stumbled onto this video and had to share it. The...
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San Francisco-Based Company Builds Guitars From Recycled Skateboard Decks
Nick Pourfard is 22-year-old artist, musician, and skateboarder currently combing his multiple talents into one package: guitars built from reclaimed skateboard decks. The San Francisco-based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photographer Stephen Orlando Captures the Movement of Musicians Through Light...
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude Photographer Stephen Orlando (previously) captures the nearly imperceptible movement one makes when quickly sliding a bow along strings, the senses typically drawn to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Projected Figures of Humans and Animals Play the Keyboard Through Dancing...
“Andante” was created by MIT’s Tangible Media Group as a way to promote an understanding of the way that music is rooted in the body, an experience that transcends more than just the ears. The group,...
View ArticleHaunting Music Created With Two New Instruments
Remember the insane marble machine instrument that took the internet by storm a few months ago? The designer, Martin Molin of Wintergatan, just built two new instruments and recorded a video where he...
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