Category Archives: instrument-a-day 2014
instrument-a-day 16: metro clarimpet
A pocket trumpet with a clarinet mouthpiece and a reed made out of a metrocard. Probably would be played better by anyone who knew how to play a trumpet or a clarinet.
instrument-a-day 15: rubber band minizither
instrument-a-day 14: tocattamatic for four disklaviers
I had a short time to make something with the Disklaviers before it was time to put them away.
Instrument-a-day 13: wind & water
instrument-a-day 12: ceiling cave-in
What should you do when a piece of the ceiling collapses?
instrument-a-day 11: short ride in a fast chihuahua
My toy chihuahua always barks 26 times in a row. I sent out a call for very short 26-beat compositions for piano and chihuahua, and received over 50 scores from 15 composers.
The computer listens to the dog and plays back the scores in time with its yaps.
See the chihuahua, hear all the microscores, and much more at the Qubit Machine Music Festival tomorrow 2/12 through Friday in NYC! qubitmusic.com/machine-music.html
instrument-a-day 10: disklavier chimes
I wired up my MIDI wind chimes to a Disklavier robot piano as part of the preparations for the Machine Music festival this week.
instrument-a-day 9: 6061 whistle
Sometimes a chunk of aluminum wants to become a nice shiny whistle.
instrument-a-day 8: 8-bit violin 0x03, special wfmu edition
Instrument-a-day 8: 8-bit violin, special WFMU edition. Thanks to Patti Kilroy for making it go!