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Can An Instrument’s Sound Cause Insanity? Maybe.
“The glass armonica’s ethereal notes were said to cause insanity, depression, and marital problems.” It was thought that the glass armonica’s ghostly and ghastly notes caused insanity in it’s musicians and listeners. People were frightened by Benjamin Franklin’s new musical…
ContinueMusic Composed of Colors and Shapes
At first sight, Orlando Leibovitz’s paintings are quite shocking. With their high contrast lighting and warped color palette, the feelings evoked, resemble post-apocalyptic life viewed through the sunglasses of the button-pusher himself. Sulk no more! Not all of Orlando’s paintings…
ContinueXylophone for the Ice Ages and the H20rchestra
One of the things that greatly excites me about musical instruments is the possibility of creating them from unexpected and ordinary materials. In this case, water. The Pagophone uses bars of ice as it’s primary source of vibration. They pagophone…
ContinueThe Daxophone and It’s Singing Alphabet of Forked Tongues
Rarely does an instrument’s form match up with it’s sound as perfectly and whimsically as the daxophone’s. Invented by Hans Reichel of Germany, the daxophone is a friction idiophone who’s vibrating mechanism is an oddly but tactically shaped wooden tongue…
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