New musical instruments
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This week seems to be all about all about unorthodox musical instruments. There are some creative people out there and they’ve been making beautiful music out there. First is the world’s first subway station stairway piano. A very clever Swedish clip on YouTube shows how people can make beautiful music on their way to work.
Closer to home here in Britain, a few electronic musicians have teamed up to produce a solution to a problem that’s been a problem at many electronic gigs over the years – namely that they’re really boring. This writer from past experience can definitely testify to the dullness of watching someone hunched over a laptop. It just doesn’t compare well with a rock gig. So their Eigenharp looks to present a solution by creating an electronic instrument that is both versatile and fun to watch. Have they succeeded? Judge for yourself here.
Finally, and everywhere on the internet, this final video is an example of lip dubbing – where people combine lip syncing and audio dubbing to make a music video. This one – in time to the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling is certainly one of the most ambitious, using the whole of the campus of the University of Quebec.