Monkeys + Synthesizers
What happens when you give six species of monkey a different musical synthesizer?
Monkeys + Synthesizers is a project where 6 different spieces of monkeys (and some others) were given different synthesizers. Do monkeys like music and do they enjoy creating music?
Humans are the only species on earth that actually compose music. Most birds and some mammals make beautiful sounds, but primarily to scare others away — or to find a mate. The project explores if other primates can make music.Since the synthesizers was invented, the musicians have been asked “Is this really making music? You just press a button and out comes music, right?” Well… you do press buttons, twist knobs and faders, but there are endless ways of doing this. That is why the synthesizer probably is the greatest musical instrument in history. A great example of human ingenuity and engineering — something that makes us different from the monkeys.
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