WTF muziek #2

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Op donderdag 29 december 2011 14:07 schreef starla het volgende:

Justice of the Unicorns - Pterodactyl Sun

Justice of the Unicorns

Little Wings - Mark Gormley

Ellen Fullman on the Long String Instrument

Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument

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The long string instrument is an instrument where the string is of such a length that the fundamental transverse wave is below what we can hear as a tone (±20 Hz). If the tension and the length result in sounds with such a frequency the tone becomes a beating frequency ranging from a short reverb (approx 5-10 meters) to longer echo sounds (longer than 10 meter). Besides the beating frequency, the string also gives higher pitched natural overtones. Since the length is that long this has an effect on the attack tone. The attack tone 'shoots' through the string in a longitudinal wave and generates the typical science fiction laser gun sound (shooting sound), similar like is happening in upper electricity cables for trains (which are ready made long string instruments in a way).

A known example of a long instrument is invented by the American composer Ellen Fullman, is tuned in just intonation[1] and played by walking along the length of its approximately 100 90-foot-long strings and rubbing them with rosined hands and producing longitudinal vibrations. A C-clamp is used on each string for putting tension on the strings, much like a guitar capo, and a resonator is placed on the end the musician faces. The Long String Instrument's range is centered on the octave of middle C[citation needed] and extends above and below this by an octave. The strings of the bass octave extend the instrument's full 90 feet.