The Sound Project

Whither music? Whence music? What music? A journey through sound.

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DUBLER STUDIO KIT: Your voice, the ultimate MIDI controller.

Your musical ideas into reality, using the one instrument you’ve been practising since birth— the voice.

If you have always wanted to make music but have had the excuse of being instrumentally challenged, thanks to Dubler Studio Kit, that can be an excuse no more! This real-time vocal recognition MIDI controller offers a way to translate your musical ideas into reality, using just your voice. 

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Instrument that grows on trees

Ever looked at a tree full of leaves and wondered how you could make music with what’s before you? Me neither. But here’s Lou Wenjun, the self-proclaimed best leaf musician in China showing you how it's done.

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Introducing the Hurdy Gurdy. Watch this video of Guilhem Desq live sample with an electric Hurdy Gurdy (the 2min mark is where things get interesting). Also do check out this TED video on 'Hurdy Gurdy For Beginners'

Via this article.

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I just came across this instrument - the Viola Organista (Video above) designed by the Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki based on a 500 year old sketch by Leonardo DaVinci. 

Via this article

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Meet the Yaybahar, a fully acoustic instrument that sounds like a synthesizer - by Isatnbul based musician Görkem Sen. 

I will update this post when I find more information on the physics behind the instrument.  

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Here is an inspiring podcast that will reach out to the geek in you - on the dance between science and music. 

From the Star Talk Radio website : "Ancient philosophers described the movement of the Sun, Moon and planets as “the music of the spheres” — the geometry of the cosmos conceived as proportional mathematical harmony. Today, science is revealing new ways music taps into ancient pathways in the brain, and technology is allowing music to be composed in new and innovative ways. Richard Melville Hall, better known as Moby, talks with Neil about the science of music, and how this intangible art has the power to move us physically and emotionally. Jonathan Coulton discusses writing songs about asteroid mining and the dwarf planet Pluto, and reveals that his song about fractals often makes him cry. Comedian Eugene Mirman is instrumental in providing some good vibrations for this symphony of science"

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SolarBeat, an interactive audio-visual tool that translates the orbital frequencies of our solar system into an ambient soundscape. 

Image credits : whitevinyldesign

Via Akshay

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An old family friend, a friendly 50 year old woman, would often come home to watch a live cricket match on our 10 year old Onida television. "Turn up the volume!" she would say. "More. Even more. I can't feel the crowd roaring".

Sound in sports go far beyond background commentary and crowd cheers. It is an orchestration of sounds from a playing field, sampled and produced, to bring the atmosphere of live sport events into our homes. Check out this brilliant podcast on sound production in sports, a specialty that I never knew existed, until now.  

Source via Akshay

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A Karnatic Music Primer

Here is a great resource if you are looking to explore the basics of carnatic music : A Karnatic Music Primer

Via my mom (Radha Sriraman)

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"This booklet is aimed at music lovers everywhere who wish to learn a little bit about the basic theory of Carnatic music.  There are a large number of books on many aspects of Carnatic music but I have found most of them to be of an advanced nature - they have lots of good information but it is extremely difficult for a novice to start learning about music using them.  Once the basics are mastered, these books provide enormous scope for intellectual enrichment.  This opinion is shared by many of my music loving friends as evi­denced by their expressing a need for a simple booklet such as this one.  The primary motivation in producing this booklet was to put together the basics in one place so that a beginner can get started off easily.  Except for the section on Grahabedam and Symmetries, there is very little new material contained herein.  The following books have been consulted to obtain much of the material and interested readers are encouraged to further their knowledge by reading them..."

- P. Sriram (February 1989).

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"Music has always been a conversation between human beings but the keyboards that Jordan Rudess plays today exist because Mozart and Beethoven demanded more from their instruments" This video is a great conversation starter on the dance between technology and music. 

Via The Verge. 

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"Everything we call character is the deviation from perfection. So perfection, for me, is characterless-ness."  

via akshay

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A basic infographic on the way an acoustic guitar works. Click here for a slightly more interactive version. via jacobhernandez

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Week1 assignment done for Coursera's Introduction to Music Production course by Berklee School of Music. 

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Some improvisation on the Ukulele based on all the Indian Carnatic music I have been listening to recently.

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Watch Pasquel D'Silva talk about Elepath's creation, Keezy. And here are a few musicians tinkering with this colourful music tool. 

Via Sarang (again) :)

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How Did Famous Creative People Spend Their Days?

Creative Routines by RJ Andrews  

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I love this.

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Here is the original. Via Sarang

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Short documentary by Ableton featuring Hendrik Weber (Pantha du Prince) collaborating with The Bell Laboratory in a performance of Terry Riley‘s seminal minimal composition, In C, at London’s Barbican Theatre.