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Music for the Next Millennium
Musical instruments are changing. Yo-Yo Ma no longer needs a bow to play the hypercello, while
Kaffe Matthews 's violin has been adapted to produce the sound of birds.
Composer Trevor Wishart believes the composer is a musical instrument. Sue Nelson visits MIT in Boston - the home of hyperinstruments - to hear the world's first virtual cello.

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Kaffe Matthews
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Trevor Wishart
Source: Radio Times

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About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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