Andreas Oskar Hirsch works as a musician and visual artist. He has been inventing various musical instruments that he performs with, among others, the Electric Palm Leaf, as well as his latest construction, the Carbophon, a kind of a super-kalimba. Moreover, by connecting melodicas to...
Reyes Oteo Fernández is a composer, violinist and sound artist specialized in live electronics performing her instruments, mainly plants, animals or human body-driven devices. Her creation juggles with contemporary symphonic composition to the experimental electronic music, simultaneously teaching as Music Professor in Composition in the Conservatories of Music...
BAKARUNA [gerBAng perangKAp beRUang Naga harimAu] From bahasa Indonesia, BEAR TIGER DRAGON PORTAL TRAP. BAKARUNA is a multidimensional research - instrument in gravitation of sound by Anna Mikhailova, including metal, wood, stone, words and strings as main medium. [edgtf_button size="" type="" text="Website" custom_class="" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" link="http://mikhamikhailova.wixsite.com/annamikhailova/bakaruna" target="_blank" color="" hover_color=""...
Quartet is a musical instrument that creates music from the city of Amsterdam. It uses the four inner canals as strings, and the bridges over those canals as frets. Each time a cyclist crosses a canal, they trigger a sensor which sends a wireless signal...
The Loopcard is a DIY looper for people fond of broken, warbly sounds. Based of simple components, it can create loops of any sounds with its built-in microphone and stretch them with a light sensor or potentiometer. All resources are open source and available online....
Dirk Johan Stromberg is an American music technologist, composer and improviser. His body of work explores dynamic interaction between performer, technology and performance practice. Designing both hardware and software has led to the development of network based audio cards, embedded hardware, and e-instruments. Dirk’s music...
Robert van Heumen is a composer and improvising musician using an extended laptop-instrument to perform highly immersive and hyper-dynamic electro-acoustic music. As a musician, live sampling is his main tool. With a joystick and other tactile controllers, live sampled source sounds are gesturally manipulated and reworked...
Melle Weijters plays the microtonal Fokker organ with his guitar! The 31-tone pipe organ was built and installed in Teyler’s Museum (Haarlem) in 1950 after a design by A.D. Fokker, a well know Dutch physicist and music theorist. The organ has two 31-tone manual keyboards (with...
Karen Geyer is a sound artist who is active between Zurich and New York. Under the name “Grauton” (“shade of grey”) she invents and builds her own mechanical objects whose sounds she picks up using contact microphones; she then amplifies and steers these sounds via...
Daniel Maalman is an artist who generally works with sound in a wide spectrum, through different media. As a sound artist he designs and builds site-specific compositions for spaces and objects, which turn these locations into temporary sound installations. During these projects he searches for...
