Music! Its Role and Importance in Our LivesChapter 21:
The Power of TechnologyWeb Links
| Tinfoil.com | | Investigate some of the first examples of recorded sound. See and hear Thomas Edison’s earliest creations, and find out more about the earliest recordings – on wax cylinder. Hear many different examples. Make sure you listen to the world’s first playable sound recording (created in 1878) and the music that was said to be playing as the Titanic sank.
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http://www.tinfoil.com/
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| The Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum | | This Web site supports the Audio Playground Keyboard Museum in Winter Park, Florida. The site includes pictures of synthesizers the museum features as well as virtual tools that let you play with the synthesizers and show you how they work. Choose the Interactive Virtual Drum Machines to play with old drum machines right on your computer. These digital representations of the machines help you see and feel the actual equipment. The link, “How Things Work a Virtual Teaching Tool,” takes you inside the electronic keyboards, complete with moving parts.
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http://www.keyboardmuseum.com
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| Hyperinstruments | | Take a tour of Tod Machover’s innovative Hyperinstruments. Which one would you most like to play: the Musical Jacket, the Emonator, or the Fireflies? Take a trip to the Toy Symphony site at http://www.toysymphony.net/ to see kids improvising their own dance club music with the funky cool Beatbug instruments. These glowing aquamarine orbs have antennae that create varying synthetic rhythm phrases when you press down on them.
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http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/projects.html
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| BBC Making Tracks | | Make music on your very own electronic soundscape! Lizard, Drones, Seasons, and Squares are games that offer you a soundscape on which to play your own electronic music.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/games.shtml
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| LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Roots | | LEMUR musicians develop robotic musical instruments that play themselves. Click on the “Audio & Video” link to see these instruments in action! One thing’s for sure: these instruments are as much about design as they are about the music produced.
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http://lemurbots.org/
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| OddMusic | | Twentieth-century musicians are not only experimenting with electronic instruments but also new or improved acoustic instruments. See and hear some of the most inventive musical instruments you could imagine.
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http://www.oddmusic.com/
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