Musical instruments
bass - beat - breaks - drums - electronica - keyboards - music - musician - riddims - saxophone - tape - turntable - human voice
Definition
A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved generally to items that have that specific purpose.
The academic study of musical instruments is called organology. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument [Jun 2005]
Mixing desk as an instrument
The mixing desk as an instrument and the DJ/remixer as an artist John McCready -- John McCready via http://www.mccready.cwc.net/bgt-dub.html [Feb 2005]Tape [...]
[...] It wasn’t long before the possibilities of tape editing were being explored to the full. In 1948 – by which time reel-to-reels were being installed in studios around the world - the experimental European composer Pierre Schaeffer was using vari-speed machines to loop, chop and re-edit sounds taken from the everyday environment.