Among the instruments he used to recreate these sounds: bee swarms, ice skates, copper bowls, gallon water bottles and a vacuum cleaner.
But where period-instrument performances usually try to recreate a historic presentation style, this one left it at the instrumental timbres (and, to some degree, the quality of the vocal production).
"The speakers are designed with lightweight composite material that vibrates the same way an acoustic instrument would, allowing the speaker to recreate the diffuse source of sound energy in a less directional manner and more evenly than a conventional speaker".
Dethklok — both the cartoon version and the live act — have endorsement deals with Gibson, and great pains are taken to recreate the authorized instruments and to make sure that the animated solos match the actual notes.
The next breakthrough, I suspect, will happen when we're able to send a human orchestra up there to recreate it with real instruments.
Tingalin is an interesting little app in the ever-growing category of "instruments for a tiny touchscreen" apps that allows you to recreate the smooth stylings of the ҫifteli, an ancient two-stringed Albanian instrument with a funky sound that would fit right in on an LSD-infused Beatles track.
The Tingalin iPhone app simulates this two-stringed instrument with absolute fidelity, going as far as to recreate the wrist-based strumming technique of the ancient Çifteli masters.
Two of his instruments are outfitted with devices, that operate like mini-synthesizers and give him the ability to recreate hundreds of sound effects and tones of other instruments.
Nor did he have much time for the early music movement, with its attempts to recreate what composers would originally have heard, with period instruments and small ensembles.
This gave Max an understanding of what Afro-Cuban music really meant and, hypnotized by the sounds of the instruments and its traditional rhythmic patterns, Pollak immediately knew that he wanted to recreate them with his feet.
