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COLLAB FEB #2: Salamandir
Salamandir on harmonic flute (didjeriflute), Ranjit on harmonic bass (tromba marina)
“The harmonic flute is a very simple instrument that makes very, very complex sounds. It was made from a piece of 1-inch PVC tubing, about 7 feet long, that I rescued from a construction site dumpster.” – Salamandir (salamandir@salamandir.art)
The tromba marina is a bowed instrument from the 15th to 17th centuries with a single very long string. It’s fingered below the bow, so you get harmonics that sound a lot like a trumpet – thus the name. My version is made from a 7 foot long piece of lumber – also rescued from a dumpster – and a cello string.
COLLAB FEB #1: JHHL
COLLAB FEB #1: Henry Lowengard on Enumero app, me on water jug and water
instrument-a-day in hyperallergic
There’s a nice article about my instrument-a-day project, today on hyperallergic: For One Month Each Year, an Artist Builds an Instrument Every Day
instrument-a-day in hyperallergic
stone song walkthrough
sound sculpture for Caramoor’s Garden of Sonic Delights, installed at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase College, New York. The sound changes slowly as the stones settle, and also responds to the weather.
The sound art festival’s opening at Caramoor on June 7th, and Stone Song will have a reception at SUNY Purchase on June 20th.
quilt, a score for the brooklyn ballet
I worked with calligrapher David Chang to make a score for the Brooklyn Ballet’s piece “Quilt / One Night Stand”, a set of structured improvisations. Here’s our video score, and a photo from the performance.
Quilt: a score for the Brooklyn Ballet from ranjit on Vimeo.
short ride in a fast chihuahua
Here’s a nice recording of Short Ride in a Fast Chihuhua, performed live (by a toy chihuahua) at the Qubit Machine Music festival in February.
And here’s a video of another performance (also recorded at Qubit).
Short Ride in a Fast Chihuahua from ranjit on Vimeo.
About Short Ride in a Fast Chihuahua:
My toy dog always barks 26 times in a row. I asked composers to contribute microscores for piano, each 26 beats long, to be synchronized to the chihuahua’s voice. Fifteen composers wrote about sixty scores, which were performed by the mechanical dog at the Qubit Machine Music festival at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York in February 2014.
Composers: Ranjit Bhatnagar, Jason Charney, RP Collier, Langdon Crawford, Christi Denton, Rachael Forsyth, Ben Houge, Lem Jay Ignacio, Bryan Jacobs, James Joslin, Ari Lacenski, Tony Marasco, Kala Pierson, Erik Satie (adapted by Ranjit Bhatnagar), Isaac Schankler, and Schuyler Thum.
twitter fiction: “no constraints, no joy”
I spoke to Buzzfeed’s Isaac Fitzgerald for this article about twitter fiction, including pentametron:
interview at clocktower radio
David Weinstein at Clocktower Gallery interviewed me about Singing Room for a Shy Person, which premiered at Clocktower last year before moving to the Tinguely Museum. Listen to the interview here!
uncaged toy piano in the new york times
Invention and Whimsy, Inspired by a Toy (NY Times 13 Dec 2013)