Richard Widerberg from Göteborg, Sweden has some very odd and interesting sound recordings on his website including a track entitled “Sunrisescape” which makes use of light sensors and two oscillators to record the gradual illumination of a rising sun. You can find this recording here.
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The Glass Duo is composed of Polish musicians Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec. Apparently they have built the largest glass harp in the world which covers four and a half octaves!

A beautiful glass harp melody entitled “Promenade” by the Glass Due:
Please enjoy several more recordings by the Glass Duo.

The Cristal Baschet, also known as the crystal organ, sounds very much like it’s crystallophone similitude, the glass armonica. Both of these instruments are friction idiophones, that is they produce their sounds when their glass ‘keys’ (in this case, 54 chromatically tuned glass rods) are vibrated, usually by a wet finger.

“The vibration of the [...]

The Japanese magazine, Science for Adults (Otonanokagaku), has some absolutely astonishing musical instrument kits including this miniature pipe organ.

Songs are programmed into a paper card which controls the organ’s airflow as it is fed through the instrument. Extra punch cards can be downloaded and printed here and a video of “Amazing Grace” is watchable [...]

Nick Cave, an artist and educator working out of Chicago, is the creator of full body “soundsuits” which are made from layers of metal, plastic, fabric, hair, found objects, and other things that rub together to make noise. Many of Cave’s soundsuits are politically/socially inspired and have deeper meanings than just looking fantastic and [...]

Ralph, the head of the US’s Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, is looking for a portable wind instrument to add some musical warmth to the frigid zen-like region of the East Antarctic Polar Plateau. Ralph and his team spend weeks camping in the desolate ice and need your help!

Ralph writes,
I run the US’s Antarctic [...]