Musical Inventions
Musical Inventions

Author: Kathy Ceceri

Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1680452290

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People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.

Sound Inventions
Sound Inventions

Author: Bart Hopkin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1000360652

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Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments, the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. In addition to the selected articles, the editors have contributed introductory essays, placing the material in cultural and temporal context, providing an overview of the field both before and after the time of original publication. The Experimental Musical Instruments journal contributed extensively to a number of sub-fields, including sound sculpture and sound art, sound design, tuning theory, musical instrument acoustics, timbre and timbral perception, musical instrument construction and materials, pedagogy, and contemporary performance and composition. This book provides a picture of this important early period, presenting a wealth of material that is as valuable and relevant today as it was when first published, making it essential reading for anyone researching, working with or studying sound.

Curious and Modern Inventions
Curious and Modern Inventions

Author: Rebecca Cypess

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 022631944X

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'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.

Instruments for New Music
Instruments for New Music

Author: Thomas Patteson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0520288025

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Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium

Musical Inventions
Musical Inventions

Author: Kathy Ceceri

Publisher: Make Community, LLC

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781680452334

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Explores the physics of sound through hands-on projects for making a variety of musical instruments with step-by-step, illustrated instructions, including a three-string guitar, thumb piano, and compact washtub bass.