2021 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition: Segulharpa

[@carabiner7999]

I had to stop midway, and go and send this to a bunch of musician friends, as well as share on social media. Sometimes my YT feed brings gifts, and this is definitely one. Cheers.

[@nomcognom2414]

This is such a beautiful invention, Úlfur! Congrats! Great job! You seem to have opened the way to a promising new class of instruments. Keep it up!

[@ChrisCarr72]

Fascinating instrument! And your English is amazing.

[@liamwhitney509]

I've been playing around with "E-Bows" on long stringed instruments for some time now. Please, please, follow your Bliss. I like your direction.

[@Alun49]

I love the idea of a new electro-acoustic instrument being created like this. New possibilities for musicians!

[@microtonalguitar]

Great instrument, congrats!

[@dagmarpfalz1363]

It sounds for me like music from the universe, like rotating stars and planets. The stars are singing! Thank you for this very new experience. Dagmar from Germany❤

[@gillesmatte3443]

I would like very much to play with this beautiful and ingenious instrument!!! Keep spreading the world with wonderfull ideas!

[@timothytremblay7763]

MUSICAL EXPRESSION AND INSTRUMENTATION IS INFINITE AS THE STARS IN THE HEAVENS - THANK GOD~!!!

[@matzer8846]

Just came across this KZbin gem ... This is so innovative and unique ... great work Thank you so much for sharing

[@JeffJulien-j9x]

Thats Genius ! Absolutely Genuine creativity ! I applaud your work to bring a new stringed instrument into the world 🌐

[@ourhome505]

What a lovely and fascinating instrument! Thank you for creating this and allowing us to enjoy it.

[@MrDaraghkinch]

Style: A crescent of copper buttons Substance: Any basic midi keyboard I bet this guy's Dad is the coolest.

[@katiamps]

Beautiful physics, electronics, music, creation, possibilities... what's not to love? ♥ What a nice surprise to bump into this video today... Gives me hope in face of all the bad stuff going on in the world right now.

[@michaelbailot5479]

I would like to hear this jacked up loud. Can you change scales? Are there any recordings of compositions on this? Beautiful work! What’s next? Thanks for sharing.

[@ThinkForYourself2025]

I want one so badly! I could never afford that level of art but I could dream. I wish I had known about this school in 2000. This would have changed my whole life direction. oh well.

[@gregoryallen0001]

wow this is so cool and seems like... v futuristic ❤

[@NerdMusician]

Amazing instrument! And nice to see the XT Synth there! :D

[@WillDa713]

that instrument is magical. brought chills to my entire body. Where can i hear more pls??

[@larrythompson9100]

Thank you nice and lovely efforts ✨🌈

[@davidloftus5481]

jeric_synergy, she's using a mesh of many notes at any moment; perhaps trying 2 or so individual tones over a bed of others, and listening for the effect. Because it's largely a-rhythmic, at least in the excerpts featured in this video clip, the music of the Segulharpa reminds me a little of the Ligeti vocal compositions used in "2001: a Space Odyssey." There's a cool instant at 4:21 when the female musician scratches the ring finger of her right hand across the face of the wood and metal at a particular key, and the microphone picks that up as a little 'skrsh skrsh' which is an incidental sonic event -- not clear whether it's inadvertent or intended.

[@robertspileos5746]

A beautiful sound.

[@TachyBunker]

Awesome!

[@OllieBurnsTrees]

Where can I find the synth guitar at 5:15? I’m trying to buy one!!?!

[@mc6267]

My man’s lucky it’s dark a lot where he’s from otherwise it would be hard to be a vampire lmao

[@gregoryallen0001]

literally loled

[@ozanhaner]

It can also be used for therapeutic purposes in music theraphy.

[@chrishayward6714]

mysterious..beautiful

[@antharesful13]

Lovely sound and so interesting project

[@Skunkhunt_42]

Whatd paul voe think?

[@jameskeithnorman]

So many amazing explorations in music coming from Iceland, this instrument included. Here's to hoping Úfur Hansson will one day follow in the footsteps of Ólafur Arnalds and create a virtual instrument that can be incorporated in compositions by the rest of us. Congratulations!

[@ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow]

The ears long for something new and long sustained harmonics..... allow for polyphonic tones like a Tibetan monk...... the convergence of the frequencies greater than the some of the parts

[@2469blast]

You would have fit right in with the Grateful Dead during their space interludes, they would pull out all kinds of sounds and odities to make the sounds of Space during their shows

[@alecciagiovanni2356]

Molto significativo il disegno sulla parte anteriore, ha qualcosa di mistico, di ispirato.. Potrebbe significare la manifestazione del Tutto nella parte e viceversa dalla parte al Tutto.

[@sebastianbache8862]

Painful... 🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜❤️

[@o.aldenproductions.9858]

Átti ekki von á íslensku 😊❤

[@ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow]

Ebow seems fiddly and unreliable in your hand so having stationary mechanisms make sense you can rely on what's going to happen

[@robertbooth3699]

Can it be played uptempo? Has anyone tried? Moody soundscapes are ok, but wear thin without some more definite shape.

[@lacrimis_solis]

Woah

[@xonious9031]

If it were that good of an instrument why is most of the video talking instead of playing the instrument?

[@3lullabies]

Idk, why?

[@idiotburns]

youd be bored 🥱

[@Jfraks]

They want ur money

[@floydhopkins7901]

It really does feel like style over substance, and it kinda sounds like a Lyra8 with more steps. Can't remember the name but there was a guy on the JHS channel that basically modded a guitar with those kind of resonators and it was waaaaay cooler.

[@SedonaMTB]

I agree.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

This Úlfur guy looks like a cross between a young Roxy Music-era Brian Eno and Riffraff from Rocky Horror Picture Show

[@JellyMonster1]

Beautifully crafted but for me, the traditional keyboard layout for the contacts spoils it. This musical instrument is played quite differently to say, a piano, so there's really no need to differentiate between sharps/flats and natural notes.

[@tonioene2262]

A 3-rows Janko would have been nice.

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

With all due respect, it didn’t sound very musical to me. I don’t know if I would ever write a song with this kind of tool…but I could try.

[@wadeevans8739]

This is a serious question. Can you play Light my Fire?

[@EdwinDekker71]

No, play "never gonna give you up"

[@spanqueluv9er]

@@EdwinDekker71 Also no.

[@Threetails]

The sign of the Nephroid of Freeth!

[@ManuZD]

Thanks a lot for the math info.

[@matycee]

no offense... good job and beautiful looking instrument, etc... but I couldn't help but be much more captivated by that mature Monstera behind the female performer, than her composition. Awesome plant care

[@EonsOfReflection]

I am still waiting for the music to begin 😅 Sadly, so far, all I'm hearing is something that sounds like background noise from electric equipment, kinda like when an old fridge comes on

[@collinbeal]

Go listen to your Guns N' Roses, then. You have the musical vocabulary of Heinz ketchup if you need a constant percussive element and lots of motion for something to qualify as music. I can appreciate a nice groove or virtuosic performance, but that's not everything music can be. This instrument focuses on timbre and resonance, and I think it has a very nuanced, interesting sound that slots in perfectly to the improvisatory nature of the genre of Electroacoustic Music.

[@asynchronicity]

It isn’t for people who utterly lack imagination.

[@pianoplayeh]

Looks beautiful and sounds beautiful, beautiful concept, but not very ergonomic. I think if I wanted to play a keyboard I would play a keyboard. A different note arrangement, perhaps isometric keys, would be more useful and inspiring, easier to get into a different mindset and discover new musical ideas. You gotta be able to play an instrument effortlessly; the keys are too far apart to play it smoothly, and the performer’s fingers were all stretched and stiff. I would get frustrated trying to play it like a piano.

[@donnboulanger]

i think that one would get proficient in a little time like learning any new thing. finding the keys would become second nature with a little practice.

[@hergestthered]

Electronics in instruments always seems like a cheat to me. It makes the instrument less interesting. Everything is over engineered with electronics and computers (refrigerators with wifi connectivity) And I'm not sure if it's making anything better. I think the future in instruments is in classical mechanics and the ergonomics of traditional instruments. A more complex piano mechanism comes to mind. I don't think we've exhausted the possibilities yet.

[@zealousie]

MKII needs dampeners. Hello rhythm.

[@rinaarsenic3909]

Very impressive

[@robertforrester578]

That guy from Iceland looks like Dracula. Hey Brother, how much would you charge to haunt a house?

[@asynchronicity]

😸

[@Heightsomethinghuman]

We can do without that trolling. Bye

[@robertforrester578]

@dillarddillard-p4e That's called a joke Dillard. Be nice.

[@omkirtan5684]

This is so beautiful. this is how we will communicate with extraterrestrials just saying

[@spanqueluv9er]

No, it’s not. Just sayin’.🙄🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@claudecharles3679]

The sound reminds me of an aeolian harp, but of course you can't play these

[@JesusSavesJohn3verse16]

Fascinating, Thank’s for sharing friend 😊 The Lord’s love + grace be with you His Hope + peace, in Life, and beyond the grave Hope you are all well and resting in Jesus saving love + grace 😊 Warmest Love + blessing’s friends 😊

[@wendywhite2642]

Beautiful, but I don’t like the sound

[@jeric_synergy8581]

Hey lady, try more than 2 note, willya?

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

women generally are not multidimensional

[@jonathanporter5223]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Facts, so its canon.

[@user-wb8iu1hl6i]

Maybe the fact that the keys are an ergonomic disaster is to blame, not ovaries

[@rev.bobertbockstop7057]

Why say such a jerky thing @jeric_? Could you build this beautiful instrument? Or play it? Your ears apparently cannot hear overtones, multiple notes, shadow tones, or anything musical beyond a kind of basic, uneducated, poorly developed brain for music. Snarky name calling is base and says more about you than this person.

[@rev.bobertbockstop7057]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164and your brain is at flatline meaning absent-dimensional.

[@abundantharmony]

Is this guy a ramblin' wreck?

[@NSBarnett]

You couldn't play bluegrass on it, then.

[@sassyalbatross2933]

Futureeeeeeee

[@brucealanwilson4121]

Let's hear someone adapt Bach to it, like Wendy Carlos did for the Moog.

[@spanqueluv9er]

@@brucealanwilson4121 it’s not for melodies, it’s for textures.

[@asynchronicity]

It doesn’t have enough attack phase for Bach’s music.

[@brucealanwilson4121]

@spanqueluv9er So it isn't a musical instrument, it is a sound-effects generator.

[@ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow]

LOL looks like it should be a UFO control panel... and it sounds like one too..... well done

[@spanqueluv9er]

@@ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow You have no clue what a UFO panel looks nor sounds like. Sit down.

[@ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow]

@spanqueluv9er who peed in your corn flakes

[@MadDoodles]

@@spanqueluv9erI’m going to regret this; and you DO?!

[@RoyScogin]

Wrongz again book boy datz space tec n ah moon inztrument erz device..lolz..

[@RoyScogin]

Juzt kiddingz juzt kiddingz er am i'z..lolz..

[@mikejones-go8vz]

Nah….whale music

[@benimartin878]

Que horror 😂