the Experimental Musical Instrument Workshop at MIT

To learn more about musical performance with invented instruments, David Merrill and Ben Vigoda co-organized an artist residency that brought MacArthur Fellow and renowned experimental music improviser John Zorn to MIT in 2004. Over the course of three days Zorn led a group of students in structured improvisations with instruments of their own design. Later the same year, they co-coordinated 'Instruments from Beyond', a panel discussion about the impact of new musical instruments that featured MIT Music faculty and composer Evan Ziporyn and Grammy and Oscar award winning composer Tan Dun.

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[AquaPsudoProductions]

the slide bagpipe sounds like a transformer 2:02

[SevereThroatCancer]

Whoaw, I'm impressed by uniqueness of some of these instruments. Many experimental instruments that is shown in video's on the internet mimic an existing instrument and while that's not a bad thing. It was nice to see these creations.

[TaterGumfries]

Tater likes that bass trumpanet.

[hygrow]

im-proviz-nye-zaytions huh? hahahaha

[KillingSpreeFreesBee]

crazy = healthy = good. M.I.T peoples ftw!

Experimental = the futere off music and sound!

[TheSleepingVillage]

nd thats some crazy software. / hardware

[TheSleepingVillage]

i like the digarydo! wish i had one lol

[harmono]

Pretty cool. I'm doing some programming of different interfaces. See my vids.

[digitl]

Interesting stuff. I really liked the electronic interfaces. I, too, am a virtuoso of my own instruments!

[DoktorGlub]

Very nice job !

Check my videos, if you like experimental stuff.