Mumbai, July 09: Double Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman, who has displayed his fetish for using new sounds in his compositions thereby surprising his fans as well as the industry, is using a brand new technology developed in the United States in his songs.
A source close to Rahman tells us that Mozart of Madras is currently specialising in the use of a brand new instrument called the Continuum Fingerboard. He thus becomes the only man in Indian cinema to use the musical device that’s been developed by the University of Illinois.
Rahman has apparently got inspired to use this instrument after he listened to the compositions on the Continuum by John Williams who scored for Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The insider reveals, “Continuum Fingerboard is like a synthesizer. It, however, is not a sound producing device but has to be connected to a sound-producing source. It does not have keys like the synthesizer or the piano but has a touch screen panel and has two lengths — 72 cm and 132 cm.”
The source adds, “Rahman was fascinated when he used this instrument in some of his concerts and also used it purely as a test this year while composing Rehna Tu for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Delhi 6. Since then, he has taken a big fascination for it. He is expected to use this instrument in a lot of his compositions from now on.”
–Agencies–