When the researchers attached the sensor to a
violin playing the wedding tune «Salut d'Amour» by British composer Edward Elgar, for example, the resistance
of the device varied in sync with air
vibration produced by the instrument, correctly recording every note
of the song.
A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to concentrate on his solo music, an always - spontaneously - composed amalgam
of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussion instruments
of his own making incorporated into his kit: e.g.
violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments that transform the drums into resonators which can, in turn, be used to incite strips
of metal to react to the drum membranes» Chladni - plate - like modes
of vibration, etc..