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A Song Composed and Played With No Musical Instruments (opens in new tab)

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Andy Brewer is an audio engineer and composer. He was playing around with pink noise, what we lay people would call static or just noise, on an equalizer and found he could extract musical notes from it with a little work. Could he play a song using just those notes? It would be a song without a voice or musical instrument. Yes, he could, although it was a lot of work. You wouldn't be able to do this if you didn't know a lot about music already. This song is technically "electronic music," an...

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