Definition of hyperinstrument in English:
hyperinstrument
nounˈhʌɪpərɪnstrʊməntˈhīpərˌinstrəmənt
A musical instrument designed or adapted to be used with electronic sensors whose output controls the computerized generation or transformation of the sound.
Example sentencesExamples
- The web site provides applets for experimenting with hyperinstruments.
- The hyperinstrument project is designed to use technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuoso performers.
- For the realization of this project some new hyperinstruments were developed.
- The hyperinstruments don't require traditional technique so much as a new type of subtility; the expression of the arts should not be passive.
- The hyperinstrument that will probably get the most attention, and draw the longest lines, is Harmonic Driving.
- As you see on Frontiers, the Brain Opera uses high-tech hyperinstruments to create musical compositions.
- The pianist plays silent notes on this keyboard at specific moments of the piece in order to change the state of the hyperinstrument software.
- It is this kind of audience involvement - not the mere manipulation of our hyperinstruments - that makes the Brain Opera truly an ‘opera.’
- The effect is so compelling that hyperinstruments have been used by a wide array of musicians, from Yo-Yo Ma to Peter Gabriel and Prince.
- His ‘radio baton’ hyperinstrument allows him to conduct a computer orchestra by simply waving a wand over an electromagnetic field.