Looking Outwards 10: Computer Music

I choose to look into Michel Waisvisz and his work “Hyper Instruments.” Waisvisz was a Dutch composer and performer and invented many experimental musical instruments. He worked at STEIM in Amsterdam from 1981 until 2008. I admire Waisvisz because of his innovation and the way he blends technology and music theory together to make new instruments. I wouldn’t be able to think of half of the things he does. He uses a lot of oscillators to get his sounds and has also taken sensor data and converted it into MIDI way back in 1984, the first to do so. Waisvisz was always trying to challenge people’s definition of music by looking to new electronic instruments, and you have definitely see that in this piece.