Vibrations and how they get to your ears.
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“Playing Guitar With Power Tools.”
(via Music of Sound
This digital guitar runs on Linux and has a touch screen interface. How cool is that? What is it exactly? The Misa Digital Guitar is a pressure-sensitive touchscreen MIDI controller that’s been built into a guitar body.
Very interesting. Guitar Hero made real? I like that the neck fights the “obvious” idea that a guitar with buttons can’t be anything like an actual guitar, when really what people who say that mean is “a guitar with only five buttons can’t be like an actual guitar.”
I’m curious how the mapping works from the touch screen to MIDI.
(via technabob)
I’ve posted this work before, but this is a new video, and I adore this installation so much.
(via Sound and Music)
Stephen Cornford’s “Three Piece” is a sound sculpture that spins two electric guitars and a bass around, along with their speakers, to make an environmental drone and creepy installation.
(via Rhizome)
Plink Jet is like an elaborate electric guitar made from the motors and mechanical components of inkjet printers. It can play itself independently or be played by a person.
Imagine the little wires from an inkjet cartridge having their length changed by the cartridge and then getting flicked arrhythmically by little motors. Yup.
(via Rhizome)
Click to 0:45 to see shredder Steve Vai show off his special guitar with bent frets to ensure that all of the notes are “really” in tune.
As he (doesn’t really) explain: “It’s just the nature of the way notes work.”
I guess this is some kind of special temperament system, but I don’t know enough to tell if this is actually just intonation, or some other kind of special thing.
(via Musformation)
This is a detail of the neck of a guitar fretted for just intonation. In just intonation, intervals are related by whole-number ratios. Instead of evenly dividing the octave into twelve parts, for example, each note is determined by a ratio. These whole number ratios allow notes to resonate more with the harmonic series.
For the guitar, it means you end up with awesome necks like this. (What would it sound like if you tried to bend a note on this thing?)
(via ljguitar)
