The Re: Sound Bottle is a device that enables you to capture sounds, which can be turned into unique musical compositions. The device was developed by Jun Fujiwara from the Tama Art University, Japan The Re: Sound Bottle resembles any normal bottle. You simply have to uncork the bottle and the device enters the ‘record mode’, captures whatever sound [...] Read more…
8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011 Jagjit Singh, dubbed “The Ghazal King” was an Indian ghazal singer, composer, music director, activist and entrepreneur. Here’s a compilation of Jagjit Singh’s soulful songs. * Aaj Phir Unka Saamna * Aap Ko Dekh Kar * Ae khuda ret ke sehra ko samandar kar de * Ae Watan [...] Read more…
A team of Bristol sound engineers have unveiled the AlphaSphere – an electronic musical instrument. Adam Place thought of the idea after getting bored with regular keyboards to play synthesized music. Place thinks that the keys on a keyboard are just controllers and not like notes on a piano. But when it comes to the [...] Read more…
Misa Digital’s guitar-cum-synthesizer – the Kitara - has no strings attached. You just need to strum the virtual strings to play the Kitara! The Kitara has an 8in multi-touch screen, a fretboard, a built-in polyphonic synthesizer and connects to MIDI devices. You need to touch on the screen to play notes. The position & movement of your touch helps [...] Read more…
Canadian researchers have found that music therapy has a profound effect on terminally ill patients. The findings by music therapy professor Sandi Curtis of the Concordia University Department of Creative Arts Therapies, shows that music provides a great deal of solace to patients suffering from a terminal illness and who are confined to a hospice room [...] Read more…
A pilot study shows that disease-causing germs live for a number of days in musical wind instruments such as the saxophone, clarinet and flute. Every year, thousands of kids in elementary & high school share musical instruments but there isn’t any recognized standard for cleaning these instruments. Disease-causing germs tend to survive on commonly shared wind [...] Read more…
