The Future Sounds Like This

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15 points·vas_popovski··7 comments

quote: "Similarly digitally enhanced are the electric violins, a family of new hybrid instruments that are sufficiently well-established to become a mainstay of the modern music scene."

I don't know about the new part of it, Jean-Luc Ponty has been fiddling with electricity since since the late-60's.

For some examples and maybe early '80's hair see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkMvBvyqvE (violin starts around 1:15), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk3ffGs40VY&feature=playe.... Plenty of other examples are out there, some of it wears well.

For more recent stuff, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_T9adkdBhY.

I have good memories of reading the whole Chronicles of Narnia to the album "Imaginary Voyage": http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Voyage-Jean-Luc-Ponty/dp/B00...

Also from 1982: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scFykNMqaws

And we can't forget the classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KIxMQro-w

This seems like a good opportunity to plug my friend Felix's Machines. A weird collection of music making machines that remove the human from performance. Check them out here: http://felixsmachines.com/

Don't miss the very cool video here: http://felixsmachines.com/video/

There are some more slightly more amateur videos of the machines on Youtube as well. There's also a video of Felix's TED talk coming out soon. And some albums next year I think...

http://www.electrickazoo.com/

Now that's a modern instrument. It's actually incredibly fun to play, and can be useful in a mix with the right effects.

The seismic FaceBass with Didjeribone is also pretty awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCRlVkKOqw

You all probably know about this one, as it came out a couple of years ago, but I still think its one of the best. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWROdOMAoKQ

If the future sounds like that I'm going to weep.

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