Rochester Institute of Technology

Creating new sounds with instruments and technology

Bach never heard his harpsichord make sounds like this. Students in the History and Technology of Musical Instruments class taught by Matias Homar at Rochester Institute of Technology got the chance ...
The Next Web

How to make almost any digital piano sound like the real thing, part 2

There’s nothing quite like the sound of a real grand piano — but these days, digital pianos can get pretty darn close. Unfortunately, the best of them are usually prohibitively expensive and short of ...
The Columbian

Sound of Battle Ground: Luthier says the climate is ideal for making world-class stringed instruments

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...
nerdist

Band Uses Acoustic Instruments to Make Techno Music

The trio Klangphonics out of Berlin makes techno music by mixing traditional instruments with synths. And they can even do it with acoustic ones. You don’t need to be a music historian to know why ...
BGR

Here's How Speakers Make Multiple Sounds At Once

In our daily lives, there are many miraculous scientific and technological concepts we take for granted. For example, your favorite Bluetooth speaker from a major brand on your desk is able to play ...