The harp is an ancient instrument, but in its current form, it seems so unwieldy that it’s a wonder that anyone ever learns to play it. It’s one thing to tote a rented trumpet or clarinet home from ...

[Johan] has slipped down the rabbit hole of making musical instruments. His poison? Laser harp MIDI controllers. Having never made one before, he thought he would start small and then iterate using ...

When Hannah Waite was growing up in Skaneateles, N.Y., and taking piano lessons, she never would have guessed that one day she’d be coaxing melodies from lasers. That is, from a laser harp, which ...

The laser harp allows a performer to create music by placing the hand in the beams since this musical instrument is made of light. The design of the laser harp illustrates a fan of beams that shoot up ...