These ancient instru­ments were com­mon in civ­i­liza­tions past, but have long since been for­got­ten. To cre­ate and play them is a chal­lenge as clues come in the form of archae­o­log­i­cal data such as frag­ments from exca­va­tions, writ­ten descrip­tions, and pic­tures. But that’s enough for a team of researchers to recon­struct the sound or tim­bre of ancient instru­ments. The ASTRA (Ancient instru­ments Sound/Timbre Recon­struc­tion Appli­ca­tion) project accom­plishes this feat using phys­i­cal mod­el­ing (com­puter syn­the­sis) and grid technology.

It seems that Kid Cudi’s new album Man on the Moon has been leaked before its offi­cial release date that is set for the 15th Sep­tem­ber 2009.