Another instructor, Amit Pitaru, who has taught at New York University, is the creator of the Sonic Wire Sculptor a musical instrument that creates muted and dreamlike dissonant tones with a three-dimensional drawing tool.
More modern marvels have appeared in the city since, such as the port's "sea organ": a giant experimental instrument that creates music from submerged tubes as the waves lap against them.
There's no distortion, even at very high volumes; the bass actually reflects the sound of the instrument that created it rather than just thumping you out of your seat; and there's even a 3-D effect to the sound, an aural illusion of sitting on a soundstage with the all the musicians arrayed in front of you.
Then there's another step: "reverse engineering" the sound, as if reconstructing the instrument that created it.
At the centre of the soundworld are four oil drums played by the percussionists - instruments that create a dazzling variety of resonances, and which inspire the richness of the rest of the piece.
New and growing firms are the instruments that create jobs.
The people in power for the past 20 years have eroded most anti trust laws that would make it so that financial industry aren't allowed to make complex financial instruments that create a web of influence that can take down the country.
"What I find very beautiful is that it is not the instrument itself that creates the sound but the interaction between the instrument and the water and the glass.
"There's no other instrument on the planet that creates these tones," he told Gizmodo in a profile.
Said Michael Shifter, a Colombia expert at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy research group, "If you're really serious about turning around Colombia, and one of the instruments is to eradicate the coca fields, then certainly the other instrument is a trade bill that creates employment".
It also includes sound effects, a Sampler that creates an instrument from the sounds you record and over 250 professional loops you can use as backing for your songs.
