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Acting on his desire to create new and exciting music, Greunbaum invented the world’s first relativistic keyboard, the Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee. “It’s my odd little contribution to society,” he said. The instrument, which he demonstrated during last week’s visit, is an ergonomic keyboard altered to produce electronic sounds as a MIDI controller. Instead of designating a specific note for each key, Gruenbaum designed the keys to correspond to intervals within a preset scale...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inventing His Own Musical Keys | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

Gruenbaum has released several CDs and performed as a soloist and with various artists around the world. 2002’s Away features live recordings of his abstract pop band Math Camp, for which he composes, sings and plays Samchillian. He has also performed as a member of the Bad Spock Quartet, which consists of Gruenbaum and friends dressed in blue Starfleet uniforms and fake ears who sing purposefully out of tune...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inventing His Own Musical Keys | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

...said he is willing to take part in the performance in whatever capacity the students decide, whether it’s playing the Samchillian or dying his hair blue onstage. But despite Gruenbaum’s preference for wacky, avant-garde art, he said that he doesn’t want to force students to be “weird like...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inventing His Own Musical Keys | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

Leon Gruenbaum, the inventor of the first strap-on keyboard that he calls the “Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee,” will come to Cambridge later this month, and composer Quincy Jones will visit in February...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Ragtime' Composer, Lyricist Talk Shop, Life | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

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