City Hall reminds me of country music. o.o But Gravity sounds beautiful. Haha, super mario bros. in his Chipophone video <3 I love how he recorded his own back track for Duck Tales And Metroid is pretty cool. I love really awesome original instruments.
Something I got to see up close and live at the Texas Renaissance Fest was the Carillon. Weighing several tons, it is made of 35 bells that are strung by banging the keys with the fist, and hitting the foot pedals. The Cast in Bronze act is done by the Masked Spirit of the Bells or Frank DellaPenna, who travels around experimenting how the Carillon can be mixed with other instruments.
This guy really gets into it, and it’s so loud that you can hear it pretty much wherever you are in the park. So this is Cast in Bronze - Reflections. Totally not the cleanest version, so here’s the Album version. Hope you guys enjoy
I recently bought myself an early Christmas present that seems appropriate to mention here, a new Violin. This shall be fun.
Somewhat more on topic, something by Ludovico I found really calming, called Svanire: youtube.com/watch?v=naiu-of7J80
I’m fairly certain it’s all string instruments, and it’s just beautiful.
Oh my god you guys! I just feel in love with this!!. Scythe linked it in chat earlier. I found out it’s two songs, the first one is 'Solomon Vandy’ by James Newton Howard, the second is ‘Seventh Heaven’ by David Lowe. And i looked more into some of David Lowe’s songs and gods. I have loved this sort of “earthy” music, ever since a friend introduced me to David Lanz “Courage of the Wind”. If anyone has any stuff like this, link it around here. Especially those with the awesome rhythmicness.
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Cast in Bronze is an interesting concept I think that a synthesizer keyboard with such samples is more practical to carry around though
It’s an impressive instrument though, and nice to hear something different than the usual stuff on it.
Svanire sounds nice, but a bit too melancholic for me at the moment
Wow… Dreamcatcher has some wonderful slow motion videos! The music makes me think of Deep Forest, a folk music band I quite like as well. Deep Forest - Nightbird Youssou N’Dour & Deep Forest - Undecided Deep forest - The sound of Africa Enigma & Deep Forest - Rain Song
Though I guess these songs are kinda off-topic, since it doesn’t really display a specific instrument. They sometimes do use tribal instruments I guess we aren’t really familiar with.
David Lanz indeed has some soothing piano music from what I heard thus far
O___O When you said Tesla Coils playing music I was like… wtf? It didn’t make too much sense, and it still doesn’t. I know the lightning makes the air around it vibrate, but how do they get it to vibrate at certain wavelengths to produce different notes? Those ArcAttack guys seem insanely awesome.
Singing Arc? I definitely don’t understand this one. Really don’t understand how they’re making sound, but yes, the audio modulated VTTC sounds cool.
I think the Deep Forest/David Lanz song fit here when requested, as I did They are technically fully instrumental songs. So dunno. But yeah, totally love all this stuff. Keep it coming, guys!
That is beautiful, though I don’t see it matching a floating island. I think I like the drums the most.
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Wikipedia on the Plasma speaker (evolved Singing Arc)
and the Singing Tesla Coil in particular (and rehashed in Zeusaphone
From what I understand, by modulating the current, they make the ‘lightning’ vibrate at different frequencies. Once you have that mapped, you can feed the music through a program/microcontroller to automatically modulate it for you. Then again, I’m not a scientist and there is no Simple English version of the wikipedia page
Hmm, here’s another link about Plasma speakers.
[i]In C consists of 53 short, numbered musical phrases, lasting from half a beat to 32 beats; each phrase may be repeated an arbitrary number of times. Each musician has control over which phrase he or she plays: players are encouraged to play the phrases starting at different times, even if they are playing the same phrase. The performance directions state that the musical ensemble should try to stay within two to three phrases of each other. The phrases must be played in order, although some may be skipped. As detailed in some editions of the score, it is customary for one musician to play the note C in repeated eighth notes, typically on a piano or pitched-percussion instrument (e.g. marimba). This functions as a metronome and is referred to as “The Pulse”.
In C has no set duration; performances can last as little as fifteen minutes or as long as several hours, although Riley indicates “performances normally average between 45 minutes and an hour and a half.” The number of performers may also vary between any two performances. The original recording of the piece was created by 11 musicians (through overdubbing, several dozen instruments were utilized), while a performance in 2006 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall featured 124 musicians.[/i]
I heard this a while back in my GCSE music lessons. Our teacher said that we would record our own, but it never happened… Still, I find aleatoric compositions a lot of fun and, while many people may not like this sort of thing, I certainly do.
Oh, and Svanire sounded wonderful. I think there may be more than just string instruments, as you can hear what sounds like instrumentalists taking their breath at times. Lovely find
Hello! I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what this instrument here (at around 11 seconds) is. The one that sounds sort of like a wild turkey? (I’ve been wondering forever about where to ask this question!)
O_o You are going to have to be more clear on what time. I have a feeling most of those are more recordeded sounds played on a track or using a synthesizer. But if it is the whistling sound, it is most likely someone whistling. I know there is definitely a horn in here, though I can’t really say what horn. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a kazoo in there. You would have to wait for like Wyvern, or someone who is experienced in a lot of instruments to come answer.
HAHA! I can top you, Sir Fix. Let me introduce you to the Kazookeylele!!! A kazoo and piano attached to a ukelele, made by crous0. I think his best work is Bohemian Rhapsody. But his first work was The Final Countdown. I randomly stumbled upon this instrument earlier today when looking up some kazoo things. It is -awesome-.
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That piano sounds more like a xylophone o_O
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