Kanud
2016
Wood and responsive technology
60 x 30 cm
Artist's collection
The Kanud is the outcome of interdisciplinary research with music that led to the merging of two Arab stringed instruments, the Oud and Kanun, into a hybrid digital instrument. It provides a detachable mechanism, which allows for the playing position to change between either Oud orKanun.
The instrument enables users to select one music scale out of eight possibilities and to record their performance. The accessibility for even non-musicians to compose and improvise music on the Arabic music scales is a bridge between traditional and contemporary Arabic music practice.