Plus a bonus sound for today–crunching through snow with a crispy crust of ice: 
Playing around with the ebassoon, which uses a simple network of dividers to derive a just-intonation scale from a single master tone.
The lobby at 55 Washington was a perfect setting for the accordion robot, with its brushed steel walls and blue neon.
Meet the birds at the Move About Myrtle festival on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn- tomorrow, September 19th!
They’ll also be at the NYC Resistor table at the World Maker Faire in Queens the next weekend (Sept 25-26).
The Case of the Curious Pedestrian at the Move About Myrtle Festival
Motherboard tv was kind enough to ask me to make a music machine for them. Here’s their video of the process!
Noise Carnival is my sound sculpture/music machine with Nick Yulman, permanently installed at Coney Island USA – Coney Island’s combination history & art museum, sideshow, and bar.
The machine has three parts, though we may add more in the future: a bass guitar, a xylophone, and a percussion section. I recently wired it up to play a short tune whenever someone drops a coin into nearby donation funnel. As you add more coins, it adds more layers to the tunes.
We want to invite composers to create new original mini-tunes for the machine. Here’s information about how to write music for Noise Carnival! We’re also interested in proposals for live performances incorporating the machine – all the parts can be played live through midi.
Pianist Tiffany Lin adjusts the piano monster
Here’s an excerpt from last night’s performance of Zachary James Watkins’ composition “Moveable” for augmented piano. (I built the piano-tickling monster for this performance.) This is just a low quality recording – a much better one will be available later. The full piece is about 75 minutes long; the excerpt is 8 minutes.