Inspired by Pierre Bastien’s music machines, I made a little chime carousel.
instrument-a-day 10: carousel
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
talk/performance at musical ecologies in brooklyn 2/11
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 8:00 PM
Admission by contribution ($10 suggested)
RANJIT BHATNAGAR: The Instrument-a-Day Project 2016
The Old Stone House
in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn – Map
718-768-3195
instrument-a-day 9: overflight chorus
A lot of airplanes come in low over the park where I walk my dog. I recorded a bunch of them and layered them together.
instrument-a-day 8: violin tuning peg hole reamer
It’s not quite an instrument, but there’s a chance it’ll come in handy someday. It would’ve been much easier to buy one of these things. Thanks to Adam and Noah for helping me figure out the machine tools!
instrument-a-day 7: bottle imp 1
A glitchy MIDI thingy in a bottle. Source code on github: https://gist.github.com/moonmilk/d72f815c7c233b4783e7
instrument-a-day 6: the big m
the big M: marbles in a candy tin
instrument-a-day 5: bottle bass
I saw this video about turning plastic drink bottles into string, so I made some bottle string and stretched it on a 2×4 to make a sort of bass guitar. The string snapped a few times, but it sort of works!
instrument-a-day 4: thermometer drum
It’s a tin can with a rubber membrane on top. When I stick it in cold or hot water, the air pressure changes, changing the tension of the membrane.
I’m strumming the drum with day 1’s toy: moonmilk.com/2016/02/01/instrument-a-day-1-joe-strummer/
instrument-a-day 3: the whisperer
instrument-a-day 2: dysonharp
A block of accordion reeds from a long-ago impulse purchase on ebay, and a vacuum cleaner.
