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Stringless Violin to Bring Soul to MIDI Music

Posted by michael on from the i-guess-that's-why-they-call-it-the-blues dept.

lperdue writes "Musicians complain that MIDI may be easy, but the results can be more than a bit cold and soul-less. This story from New Scientist says that Stanford Professor Charles Nichols believes his violin, sans strings will put the emotions back into MIDI music."

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  1. Oxymoron by andfarm · · Score: 2, Funny

    He claims that his electric violin will "put soul back into MIDI music".

    Soul? MIDI? Have we ever heard these two word togethe before?

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