“There’s definitely something science fiction-like about a lot of experimental musical instrument building, but perhaps that is because we still fully don’t have a language to describe many of the new sonorities these instruments produce. When many of the instruments we’re used to nowadays were brand new, they probably seemed just as incomprehensible. The reverse is also true. Playing on an older version of a familiar instrument can feel like being greeted by someone on the street in Anglo-Saxon…”