To make new and challenging acoustic experiences, artists need to reach outside conventional instrumentation. ![]() Modern-day musical instruments have sadly declined into a stock set of widely accepted sound loops and analog synthesizer simulations. In the 1970s, bands such as King Crimson simulated orchestras with tape loops. Early artists such as Pink Floyd experimented with many different sounds before finding the rhythm and timbre that led to their great success. In the 1960s, musicians started experimenting with electronic sounds. Though musical abstractions, we can share such experiences, but only when the instruments place no constraints on our expression. ![]() The tiniest of space we share with another person, even in the most fleeting touch, can mean more to us than all the stars in the sky. For us, a day can pass like an hour, and an hour can seem like days. True, we may live in a material world, but within our shared experience, the abstractions of time and space are not imprisoned by the clocks and Cartesian coordinates of modern science. ![]() Music has the unique ability to create an infinitely changing experience via pure abstractions of temporal and spatial relationships, most simply perceived as rhythm and timbre.
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