Tuesday, September 15, 2015

All the friction 'bout that drum

This summer I've been given a nice opportunity to work on interesting musical project at my school's Laboratory of Computer Graphics and Multimedia. You probably heard or at least saw this instrument once in your life:

It's a friction drum, an instrument used most commonly in folk music. It consists of a membrane stretched over a sound box and the sound comes from vibration that is achieved by friction.

Here you can listen to the sound of friction bass I recorded.



Laboratory's idea was to create a similar but electrical instrument using cheap and simple electronics.



And this is the result!

I'm gonna post more project's details in the next days. Stay tuned. :)

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