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Part of an old PC keyboard. It makes a nice rattling sound.
instrument-a-day 12: qwerty rattle
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Category Archives: sound sculpture
instrument-a-day 11: 8 bit violin 0x02
Violinist Patti Kilroy helped me build an 8-bit violin. No video today, but after the glue has had a few days to dry, she’ll try it out.
instrument-a-day 10: frog
A 3d-printed version of those carved wooden croaking frogs.
Download the files to make your own here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:17385
the Music Box in New Orleans
The Music Box: Winter from TungstenMonkey on Vimeo.
Here’s a beautiful video from the Music Box in New Orleans, documenting the rehearsals and performances in November and December. I was just one of many artists and musicians who put the whole thing together.
instrument-a-day 9: hmmmm
A variation on yesterday’s bzzz. A bit better, but I still want more!
instrument-a-day 8: bzzzzzz
This is a not very successful experiment with translating live video into sound. I’m gonna keep messing with it, though, until it turns into something interesting.
instrument-a-day 7: speak and play!
Speak and Play! is a speech synthesizer for pianists. It has two parts: a score generator that turns written English text into musical scores, and a sample set (hurriedly constructed from my own voice) which, when used to play the scores, approximately recreates the original text.
Thanks to pianist Margaret Leng Tan for making Speak and Play! speak and play, and for coming up with the name!
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instrument-a-day 6: acrylic slide whistle
a slide whistle made from some scraps of acrylic tube and rod, and lubricated with olive oil.
instrument-a-day 5: brass free reeds
Primitive accordion-style free reeds, made from basswood and strips of brass. They take a LOT of wind to play – I almost passed out while recording the soundtrack. I also broke one of them, so I tapped and scraped on the reed instead of blowing it.
They have a nice deep tone with a lot of promise, so I hope to work with this technique more. I used this reference while building them.
I didn’t manage to record any video, so the demo video is pretty bland.
instrument-a-day 4: printed panpipes
I designed some panflute-like whistles and printed them on a Makerbot. They’re disappointing – hard to play, and pathetic sounds. But you can download the design files and improve them for me! www.thingiverse.com/thing:17020 and www.thingiverse.com/thing:17023