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It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2781" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://expmag.com/2021/03/it-looks-like-a-saxophone-but-plays-512-notes-many-youve-never-heard-before/" target="_blank"><strong>It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before - Experience</strong></a></p><p></p><p>In 2017, Subhraag Singh was on a flight from his home in Stuttgart, Germany, to Atlanta, wondering if anyone else could hear the music in his head.</p><p></p><p>It had come to him in his dreams — this amazing, almost atonal soundscape. But whenever Singh awoke and rushed to his saxophone or keyboard, the sound was just beyond his grasp. Nothing felt quite right. Unable to recreate what he had experienced in his sleep, Singh realized this music existed outside of the rigid 12-note structure of Western music, in which he had been trained as a jazz musician. He needed an instrument that could access the subtle tones between those notes — so he spent two years and his life savings creating one.</p><p></p><p>Once he had a working prototype, Singh, 37, entered the <a href="https://guthman.gatech.edu/" target="_blank">Guthman Musical Instrument Competition</a>, an international showcase for the newest ideas in music, held annually at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. And now he was flying to Georgia with his homespun brass horn — dubbed the “Infinitone” — stowed in a makeshift sheet-metal case in the plane’s cargo hold. This was the moment of truth: In front of the entire world, industry professionals would either tell Singh that they believed his invention was the future of music, or that he had simply lost his mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2781, member: 1"] [URL='https://expmag.com/2021/03/it-looks-like-a-saxophone-but-plays-512-notes-many-youve-never-heard-before/'][B]It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before - Experience[/B][/URL] In 2017, Subhraag Singh was on a flight from his home in Stuttgart, Germany, to Atlanta, wondering if anyone else could hear the music in his head. It had come to him in his dreams — this amazing, almost atonal soundscape. But whenever Singh awoke and rushed to his saxophone or keyboard, the sound was just beyond his grasp. Nothing felt quite right. Unable to recreate what he had experienced in his sleep, Singh realized this music existed outside of the rigid 12-note structure of Western music, in which he had been trained as a jazz musician. He needed an instrument that could access the subtle tones between those notes — so he spent two years and his life savings creating one. Once he had a working prototype, Singh, 37, entered the [URL='https://guthman.gatech.edu/']Guthman Musical Instrument Competition[/URL], an international showcase for the newest ideas in music, held annually at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. And now he was flying to Georgia with his homespun brass horn — dubbed the “Infinitone” — stowed in a makeshift sheet-metal case in the plane’s cargo hold. This was the moment of truth: In front of the entire world, industry professionals would either tell Singh that they believed his invention was the future of music, or that he had simply lost his mind. [/QUOTE]
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