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Cool new instrument

Archive · 2009 4 old posts

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Jay ·

Hi guys

I just came across this weird and wonderful new instrument called an Eigenharp just wondered what some of you thought about this device

Here is their site http://www.eigenlabs.com/alpha/

and here is a demo of it in action on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Laq2788EE

i personally think its fantastic and hope Santa has one of these in his sack when he visits my place this year!

some how it reminds me of the scene in Star Wars with the alien musicians in that bar 😀

Best Regards

Nu Audio Science ·

A friend is interested in this but he is in Australia so i may have to go and try it out for him before he orders These guys are 20miles from where i live 😀 Hopefully he is still interested otherwise i have to come up with another excuse to visit em hehehe

NAS

electrogear ·

£4000??? Ouch! Personally I don't see the point, it seems like a gimmick to me. An extremely overpriced one at that...

trogluddite ·

Depends how you like to make music I suppose. It seems to have a lot of expressive potential for folks like me who are more used to playing bits of wire strung over planks of wood - using fingers for expressive vibrato and slides - that kind of things. As for the price, well you'd have needed to be absolutely loaded to afford the first pianos ever made - but now you can tinkle the 'ivories' on a 'piano' keyboard for the price of a night down the pub. Personally, I could never get my head around that mixed up pattern of black and white notes, and as much as I love techno, glitch etc., I like to see dudes throwing shapes with a big grin on their face when I go to a gig. From the reviews i've read, you can make the hardware part behave any way you like using the programming interface - but it's a bit cryptic and text based - absolutely crying out for a graphical environment like SM I reckon. But that's the best thing about making music - each to their own. I'm an old 'turn it up to 11' crusty punk, but I jam with a classically trained pianist and use SM for getting some weird loops, blips and beeps in there for good measure. Mutation beats stagnation any day of the week.

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