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Eternal Time

Music for electromagnetic monochords, strings, and accordion

performed by Rodrigo MT, Mac Waters, Duncan Mahoney, Daniel Lin, and Abigail Pak

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This piece was performed in the East Reading Room of the Baker Berry Library at Dartmouth College on April 20, 2024

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The piece features a self-designed instrument, the electromagnetic monochords. It was built by Rodrigo Martínez and Mika Feinberg, who engineered and programmed the control box of the instrument

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The control box of the instrument sends pulse waves at audio rate to electromagnets placed beneath tensed strings, thus exciting multiples of the string's fundamental frequency.