I’m building a piano-tickling machine for Zachary James Watkins’ piece “Moveable,” which pianist Tiffany Lin will premiere in Seattle on April 2. More info within.
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Category Archives: sound sculpture
closing doors at nycemf march 25
I presented my piece “Closing Doors” for robot toy piano at the NYC Electro-Acoustic Music Festival last week. It sounded something like this:
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Previously with robot toy piano…
Noisy noises video
instrument-a-day 28: Baba Yaga's Balalaika
It's made from a wooden mortar and pestle and some scraps of guitar string. I strapped a rechargable battery to my thumb to use as a slide, just like Baba Yaga used to do.
That's it for instrument-a-day for this year, but Jason, Chris and I will be performing with some of these instruments on Wednesday at Barbes in Brooklyn.
28 more noisy noises at barbes, march 3
A performance with handmade instruments at Barbès in Brooklyn, Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 8pm.
Like last year, I’ll be joined by Jason and Chris of the Glass Bees!
instrument-a-day 27: clock gongs
I collected a bunch of old clock gongs, bells, and chimes from ebay.
instrument-a-day 26: tick-tock metronome
Metronome, wire, and two circuit-bent pocket voice recorders named "tick" and "tock".
instrument-a-day 25: man-who-sold-the-world-o-phone
I was listening to David Bowie’s "The Man Who Sold The World" and wanted to reproduce its distinctive percussion.
You may recognize the beads from last year.
instrument-a-day 24: guitar drone wheels
A modification of the handheld drone wheel (instrument-a-day 13) – now solidly mounted on the guitar.
instrument-a-day 23: dollarwhistle
It's a pennywhistle made from a can of Coke, which costs a dollar. A little slanted block of wood is glued in the mouthpiece to direct air to the fipple. I only made two holes because it was in danger of falling apart the whole time.
