Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...
A Brahms concerto being played on a Stradivarius violin can be a priceless experience, but is the wooden box with the strings stretched over it in and of itself a good investment? Historically, ...
Music commentator Miles Hoffman, a nationally renowned violist, and NPR's Steve Inskeep visit the Library of Congress' small, priceless collection of Stradivarius instruments. Hoffman plays some of ...
Ancient instruments can be lost because they are too difficult to build, or too difficult to play, but they can be heard again thanks to the ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction ...
In a cheerful rehearsal room at Temple University, a few dozen professional musicians inspect the instruments that they'll be playing to debut an audacious piece of music by a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
A research project to make digital instruments sound more realistic takes a hard left turn. When Gadi Sassoon met Michele Ducceschi backstage at a rock concert in Milan in 2016, the idea of making ...
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Dr. Alex Schweder at the 2024 Research Open House. Photo Courtesy of Pratt Communications and Marketing. Of the twenty-years that I have been investigating architecture through performance through ...