With A 3D-printed Instrument, This Musician Is Composing The Future

Often, it begins in the dark. When the LEDs light up?in red, yellow, blue, green, and purple?the face inside the mask becomes faintly perceptible. But before the gathering crowd can identify the man, the music comes on. It comes in swells and ribbons. It comes as a devouring chaos, as a frenetic torrent of notes and phrases, looping back into new motifs of sound. Onyx Ashanti invented the instrument he plays, which he calls the exo-voice. He also printed it with a 3D printer he built himself.