Abstract:Historically marginalised instruments witness and bear vital stories that can deeply affect identity and galvanise communities when revitalised. We present the protolangspil as a contemporary interpretation of the langspil, an Icelandic monochord-like folk instrument, and describe its agential and performative contributions to the first Icelandic NIME research lab. This paper describes how the proto-langspil has served as an instrument in establishing the research methodology of our new lab and concretised the… Show more
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