Great interview with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

There is a plethora of electronic wind instruments. From “pro” offerings from Yamaha, Akai and Roland, to homebrew instruments. So much that somethings get released and you don’t know about them until someone does a cool video with one. Like this:

The re.corder is an electronic soprano recorder. It looks very and sounds cool, but if you can do that with a recorder, why can’t you do a FLUTE like this????

Interesting cover of the Mandalorian theme with all kinds of ethnic instruments, including flutes.

Sad to get a letter saying that FluteTalk Magazine was not taking renewals for it’s magazine and evaluating it’s future. I truly loved getting the colorful magazine in my mail box ever month.

Please go check them out online!

There is a lot of development using various powerful, low-cost sensors, computers, etc, to augment a musical performance. The idea of taking brain waves and maybe having it start triggering something is very interesting.

I was going to put this on Musescore, but seems you need a PRO account to do anything over like 4 scores on there. Anyone want to gift me with a PRO account? In the meantime, here is the PDF of the Mandalorian Theme from the new Star Wars TV show.

  The Mandalorian Theme for Flute (125.7 KiB, 32 hits)
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“Technology is changing the very nature of not just music consumption but how music is written and produced. People need to know that they’re being both manipulated by music technology and missing out on a full music experience. Alan Cross shares the subtleties of today’s music delivery systems and questions what it means for the future of music.”

John Williams is a living national (world) treasure.