video of coney island installation

Posted on May 2, 2009 by ranjit

It’s still not quite ready for full-time operation, but now we can crank it up on special occasions!
[video on flickr]

interview & video at nyc24

Posted on May 1, 2009 by ranjit

nyc24 covered the NYC Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and posted an interview and some footage of me and some of my music machines. (Click the Robot Monkeys video!)

produce scans on clickblog.it

Posted on April 20, 2009 by ranjit

clickblog, an Italian photography blog, had a nice little post about my produce scans project. (Here’s an automated translation into English)

The project continues, with 263 fresh & all-organic images so far.

screenshot from clickblog.it

live at barbès

Posted on March 5, 2009 by ranjit

The Glass Bees and I played a bunch of my homemade instruments last night at Barbès in Brooklyn. (The show was made possible by Bethany Ryker, who brings interesting stuff to Barbès every Wednesday and to wfmu every Sunday.)

Here’s some excerpts from the show– thanks to bee Chris for editing and naming the songs!

You may be able to catch an interview and some more from the show on NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered this Saturday or Sunday. [Update: the interview aired on March 7th and can be read & heard on NPR’s site.]

photo: me and two bees with our granny-carts full of junkstruments!

odd instruments on NPR

Posted on September 28, 2008 by ranjit

National Public Radio’s All Things Considered did a little feature on odd musical instruments on September 28th, and they were kind enough to feature some of my 29 Noisy Noises along with a bunch of other strange and wonderful instruments. You can hear the segment, and see a slideshow of some of the odd instruments, on the All Things Considered website.

results of the junk guitar class

Posted on August 2, 2008 by ranjit

Electric Junk Guitar Workshop from ranjit on Vimeo.

trumpet marine at figment festival

Posted on June 27, 2008 by ranjit

I made a little sound sculpture – a sort of wind-powered banjo – for this weekend’s Figment Festival on Governors Island. Here it is installed on the island’s waterfront by Castle Williams, with a spectacular view of downtown Manhattan. (If you’re in the New York area, come to the festival this weekend – it’s free, and there’s eight million things to see.)

If the wind really picks up, the flowers will spin.

And here’s a video from when I was testing it on my deck.

Update: here’s video from the festival itself.

pix and sounds from 29 noisy noises

Posted on March 14, 2008 by ranjit

Thanks to everyone who came to the 29 Noisy Noises party on March 1 and helped me celebrate finishing 29 instruments in 29 days! Lots of great people came over and made a lot of great noise on the 29 instruments — you can hear some of it below.

– more party photos from Andrew – more from me