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These Bizarre New Musical Instruments Are Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen… or Heard
For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech’s School of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over the world to build and explore the future of music, and together, they’ve produced some truly weird and exciting sound machines. “We live in an…
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A Camera That Sees Vibrations Can Record the Sounds of Multiple Instruments Separately
Although the sensitivity and performance of microphones has improved quite a bit since Alexander Graham Bell first patented them, they still have one big drawback that researchers from Carnegie Mellon University may have finally overcome by using a pair of run-of-the-mill video cameras.