THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 8:00 PM
Admission by contribution ($10 suggested)
RANJIT BHATNAGAR: The Instrument-a-Day Project 2016
The Old Stone House
in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn – Map
718-768-3195
A lot of airplanes come in low over the park where I walk my dog. I recorded a bunch of them and layered them together.
It’s not quite an instrument, but there’s a chance it’ll come in handy someday. It would’ve been much easier to buy one of these things. Thanks to Adam and Noah for helping me figure out the machine tools!
A glitchy MIDI thingy in a bottle. Source code on github: https://gist.github.com/moonmilk/d72f815c7c233b4783e7
the big M: marbles in a candy tin
I saw this video about turning plastic drink bottles into string, so I made some bottle string and stretched it on a 2×4 to make a sort of bass guitar. The string snapped a few times, but it sort of works!
It’s a tin can with a rubber membrane on top. When I stick it in cold or hot water, the air pressure changes, changing the tension of the membrane.
I’m strumming the drum with day 1’s toy: moonmilk.com/2016/02/01/instrument-a-day-1-joe-strummer/
A block of accordion reeds from a long-ago impulse purchase on ebay, and a vacuum cleaner.
Instrument-a-day is back! This is my ninth year of making a new musical instrument (loosely defined) every day in February.
An easy one for day one: I tied a piece of fishing line to a battery-powered cappuccino frother to make a strumming machine.
