Terry Hennessy, instrument builder of the strange and wonderful, includes the Bb Army Boot in his repertoire. Brass, leather, copper and…humour! I love the iconoclastic and the irreverent. Thank you, Garth, for those horns!

 

this BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Volcanic eruptions score melodies article is an interesting discussion of sonification of natural phenomina.

more exceptional listening devices - you need to hold your tongue firmly in your cheek to improve reception Amplifier Institute Failures

The images in my last post came from the stearable horns from WW1 and WWII discussed on this site Acoustic Radar.

Some assistance for hearing difficulties:

For ensemble

for solo performance

for those hard of hearing

A bunch of interesting development work going on at IRCAM including approaches to mapping, gesture recognition etc Rémy Muller - Ircam development blog - Open Sound Control