Yesterday I went to a whistle workshop, so today I thought it was time to make a whistle out of a walnut shell.
On the inside there’s a piece cut from another walnut shell which directs air from the hole at the end up to the fipple.
It sounds like this:
walnutwhistle.mp3
Here’s LEV again, because one “Crazy” wasn’t enough.
Lev plays Patsy from ranjit on Vimeo.
Here’s LEV, my theremin-playing robot first seen at Artbots 2003, playing a familiar song with the help of the newly built thumpbot and an obsolete synthesizer.
Lev and Thumpbot play “Crazy” from ranjit on Vimeo.
(also on youtube)
They don’t play so well, but what do you expect from robots?
Time Out NY magazine has a small feature about handmade music nights at Etsy Labs, and it includes a little bit about me and a photo of one of my handmade music gadgets.
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Etsy Labs, Create Digital Music, and Make Magazine have been holding a series of handmade music nights at Etsy’s Brooklyn headquarters, where people share the musical gadgets they’ve made. It’s just been featured in Time Out NY (scan). CDM’s got nice wrapups of the first (with video, including me!) and second events.
Here’s a video of the wind-up noisemaker I made for the second handmade music night:
Six keys, four springs, one knob from ranjit on Vimeo.
Misericordiam visited the Figment Festival on Governor’s Island, New York City, this July. For the first time, I suspended the piece from a tree in the open air rather than from an indoor framework. It was a beautiful day to hang accordions in trees. Here’s some video from the festival.
There’s some photos of Misericordiam al fresco over at flickr.
There’s no attempt to create a humanoid with Misericordiam, by Ranjit Bhatnagar, an accordion hung from a rope. It compresses and, thanks to gravity, decompresses with a convulsive abandon. I don’t know if it had any other purpose than humor, but I didn’t feel like I needed more.
— roberta fallon and libby rosof’s artblog: The human side of artbots
Misericordiam, the accordion robot, is in the Artbots show at the Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia. The opening is this Friday the 13th of April, and the show runs until the end of June.
I have a new piece in Ten Years Running at the Chelsea Art Museum, April 5-14. The reception is Thursday, April 5, 6-8pm.
The latest incarnation of Misericordiam, the hovering accordion from Fluxbox, will be at the Esther M. Klein Gallery in Philadelphia for Artbots Philly, April 13-June 30, opening the evening of April 13th, 5:30-7:30.
I’ll be doing some sort of sound sculpture installation at the Bent Festival, April 26-28, and the Parsons DT band Mister Resistor will be playing at the festival.
We’ll also be playing in the Tranzducer series at Lemurplex on Friday, May 25th.
