Blog Updates, 17 February 2008

In no specific order, here are some things that remind me of other things that I wrote about once upon a time.  Enjoy!

Exhibit A
I can't exactly call it a visionary instrument - but it does make me hallucinate:  Uwe Steger presents the Roland V Accordion with numerous extensions, proving once and for all that electronics make any conventional instrument instantly capable of a million times more weirdness.


Exhibit B
Stephen Hobley has created a smaller - and maybe more performable - version of the laser harp (I featured Jen Lewin's earlier multi-player design in an earlier post, here).


Exhibit C
And William Eaton has developed the TransPerformance Harp Guitar, which features an electronic bridge that switches from one tuning to another almost instantly and at the press of a button, allowing compositions with fluid transitions between multiple totally different tunings.  My imagination is groaning from the strain:


And if that doesn't blow your mind, it's probably already blown and you should be riding on a spare or you'll break your axle!  (What, you don't carry a spare mind?)