You may be able to own this machine if you give money to WFMU during their fundraising marathon next month!
instrument-a-day 25: wooden synth, special wfmu edition
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Category Archives: instrument-a-day 2015
instrument-a-day 24: vegan egg bass
Alida made an egg carton bass and I wanted to steal the idea but I didn’t have any eggs, so I used a box of tofu.
instrument-a-day 23: tiny fizz
baking soda and vinegar on a contact microphone
instrument-a-day 22: lucky cat fight
instrument-a-day 21: khionophone
instrument-a-day 20: window wiper
Wiping an amplified window.
instrument-a-day 19: big spring
big spring with contact microphone.
instrument-a-day 18: cuckoo organ prototype
toot toot toot
instrument-a-day 17: cuckoo organ test
Today a single key, tomorrow an octave?
instrument-a-day 16: singing flower
Spinning flower sings Mozart!
A hastily-constructed Max patch reads a midi file and turns it into rotation speeds for the motorized flower. Based on the wooden synthesizer and an idea by John Glover.
You can actually see the motor seize up when it tries to hit the high note the second time.