It always amazes me how Daedelus can be so immersed in the popular electronic music scene and still produce wild soundscapes like this. Daedelus “Righteous Fists of Harmony” from DestroyRockMusic Inc. on Vimeo. The concept is a soundtrack for the boxer rebellion. From brainfeeder: After seventy years of China’s opium-related subjugation by Queen Victoria and [...]
This video provides a wonderful description of an early sampling based instrument. Every sound was recorded on a tape track and played in sync with the other track. The keys appear to control the tape heads. The instrument has since appeared on an impressive list of popular recordings for such a novel instrument.
Yes, what you see in this video is a violin, viola, cello, and bass glued together. It was created by Diego Stocco(twitter) and is featured in Guy Richie’s film Sherlock Holmes. Enjoy.
A visualization of the imperfections tempered tuning vs. perfect ration based intonation. From Justonic(by way of Synthtopia): With just tuning, composers were more or less locked into the key that a piece of music began in. This was not thought to be a problem until the rise of keyboard based instruments, which would sound out [...]