After my dog was done chewing on this stick, I drilled some holes in it and chopped the end off to try to make a membrane pipe. It didn’t work very well, making only a single, annoying note.
instrument-a-day 13: squeaky stick
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Category Archives: sound sculpture
instrument-a-day 12: vowelizer
Take a table of vowel formant frequencies, round them to the nearest MIDI notes, and play them on the built-in synthesizer. You can totally hear the vowels on the whistle instrument, and kind of sort of hear them on the piano.
Max/MSP source code at github.
instrument-a-day 11: live at musical ecologies
Sorry, you had to be there (because I forgot to make a video).
(thanks to Gilly Youner for this video!)
instrument-a-day 10: carousel
Inspired by Pierre Bastien’s music machines, I made a little chime carousel.
talk/performance at musical ecologies in brooklyn 2/11
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 8:00 PM
Admission by contribution ($10 suggested)
RANJIT BHATNAGAR: The Instrument-a-Day Project 2016
The Old Stone House
in Washington Park, 3rd Street & 5th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn – Map
718-768-3195
instrument-a-day 9: overflight chorus
A lot of airplanes come in low over the park where I walk my dog. I recorded a bunch of them and layered them together.
instrument-a-day 8: violin tuning peg hole reamer
It’s not quite an instrument, but there’s a chance it’ll come in handy someday. It would’ve been much easier to buy one of these things. Thanks to Adam and Noah for helping me figure out the machine tools!
instrument-a-day 7: bottle imp 1
A glitchy MIDI thingy in a bottle. Source code on github: https://gist.github.com/moonmilk/d72f815c7c233b4783e7
instrument-a-day 6: the big m
the big M: marbles in a candy tin
instrument-a-day 5: bottle bass
I saw this video about turning plastic drink bottles into string, so I made some bottle string and stretched it on a 2×4 to make a sort of bass guitar. The string snapped a few times, but it sort of works!
