The guitar-volume problem had been solved, directly, by the electric guitar, which Benny Goodman's guitarist Charlie Christian had instantly turned into a singing, hornlike, bending instrument.
Though the genre of funktronica (yes, that's annoying, but it's totally a thing) is relatively young, Benedek is a prodigious contributor, bending virtual instruments into to accurate recreations of the classic hardware that inspired their sound.
In asking musicians to produce them, Bach was insisting that they bend the instrument to their will, and to his.
In asking violinists to do all these things in his extraordinary Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin, Bach demanded that they bend the instrument to their will and his.
I got to indulge my love of analog synths and circuit-bending instruments from the beginning of electronic music to the current time.
This is an exercise in instrument bending.
All the beams were tested under four point bending and extensively instrumented to monitor strains, cracking, load capacity and failure modes.
The curvature of the articular surfaces poses further problems and also pre-disposes to instrument bending or breakage, demanding careful and gentle handling.
In Huang Ruo's "Written on the Wind," the pipa player Min Xiao-Fen moved around her instrument virtuosically, bending strings to create graceful lines and executing brisk chordal slides while strumming vigorously, often while singing an involved, appealing melody with text in a made-up language.
The band members (except for the drummer) began the set bent over their instruments, like four very loud prehistoric creatures, and they spent more than an hour playing brutal songs full of adventurous instrumental parts and sweeping choruses.
Their varied subjects include jazz musicians bent over their instruments; rural families cooking or eating dinner; and a dressmaker who, with the nude figure of her client changing clothes, offers a wry variation on the artist-with-model theme.
