I noticed that when I drop a lump of sugar in my tea, it makes a tiny fizzing noise. It’s barely audible here.
instrument-a-day 19: sugar fizz
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Category Archives: instrument-a-day 2016
instrument-a-day 18: whispering imp uke, live at Wordhack
Packaged up yesterday’s whisperer with touch sensors in a broken down toy ukulele. Video from a quick live demo at Wordhack, at Babycastles NYC.
instrument-a-day 17: teensy whispering imp
instrument-a-day 16: floor harpsichord prototype
This will be a bigger instrument next month, to be played by dancing.
Unlike a normal harpsichord, it plucks on the way down instead of the way up. The quill is made from a metrocard, and the damper from my old dog Samson’s fur.
instrument-a-day 15: poop bag playdoh pan flute
Using playdoh to tune the little plastic tubes that dog poop bags are wrapped around, making a terrible panflute.
instrument-a-day 2016: ladybug dance
Just some dancing ladybugs for valentine’s day.
instrument-a-day 13: squeaky stick
After my dog was done chewing on this stick, I drilled some holes in it and chopped the end off to try to make a membrane pipe. It didn’t work very well, making only a single, annoying note.
instrument-a-day 12: vowelizer
Take a table of vowel formant frequencies, round them to the nearest MIDI notes, and play them on the built-in synthesizer. You can totally hear the vowels on the whistle instrument, and kind of sort of hear them on the piano.
Max/MSP source code at github.
instrument-a-day 11: live at musical ecologies
Sorry, you had to be there (because I forgot to make a video).
(thanks to Gilly Youner for this video!)
instrument-a-day 10: carousel
Inspired by Pierre Bastien’s music machines, I made a little chime carousel.
