I froze a contact microphone in a cup of water, and thawed it out again.
instrument-a-day 7: ice mic
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Category Archives: sound sculpture
instrument-a-day 6: cuckoo whistles
Trying out bellows made with leather, tyvek, and fake leather.
instrument-a-day 5: the worst pipe organ
A fan, a box, and some pipes from the February 8, 2009 instrument-a-day: moonmilk.com/2009/02/08/instrument-a-day-8-more-whistles/
This may or may not be the start of something bigger.
instrument-a-day 4: bowed cowbells
With a little practice, this could almost be an acceptable sound. I didn’t practice.
instrument-a-day 3: playdocarina
The secret to getting a loud clear note out of the soft squishy ocarina was making a sharp-edged lip around the blowhole. As soon as I poked a hole in it, it started to fall apart.
instrument-a-day 2: heatsink
A big heat sink on a cardboard box resonator has a surprisingly nice chime to it.
instrument-a-day 1: paper speakers
It’s February, and that means it’s Instrument-a-Day time again! Day 1: paper speakers – experimenting with simple handmade speakers.
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stone song walkthrough
sound sculpture for Caramoor’s Garden of Sonic Delights, installed at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase College, New York. The sound changes slowly as the stones settle, and also responds to the weather.
The sound art festival’s opening at Caramoor on June 7th, and Stone Song will have a reception at SUNY Purchase on June 20th.
short ride in a fast chihuahua
Here’s a nice recording of Short Ride in a Fast Chihuhua, performed live (by a toy chihuahua) at the Qubit Machine Music festival in February.
And here’s a video of another performance (also recorded at Qubit).
Short Ride in a Fast Chihuahua from ranjit on Vimeo.
About Short Ride in a Fast Chihuahua:
My toy dog always barks 26 times in a row. I asked composers to contribute microscores for piano, each 26 beats long, to be synchronized to the chihuahua’s voice. Fifteen composers wrote about sixty scores, which were performed by the mechanical dog at the Qubit Machine Music festival at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York in February 2014.
Composers: Ranjit Bhatnagar, Jason Charney, RP Collier, Langdon Crawford, Christi Denton, Rachael Forsyth, Ben Houge, Lem Jay Ignacio, Bryan Jacobs, James Joslin, Ari Lacenski, Tony Marasco, Kala Pierson, Erik Satie (adapted by Ranjit Bhatnagar), Isaac Schankler, and Schuyler Thum.
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