Yes, it’s a contact microphone encrusted with eyes.
That wraps it up for Instrument-a-day 2016. See you next year!
All the years past at moonmilk
instrument-a-day 29: the googly eyes
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instrument-a-day 27: candle tremolo, again
This time it works, softly, thanks to circuit advice from Dr Bleep.
instrument-a-day 26: paper violin
A paper “violin”, amplified with a contact microphone. It just barely works.
instrument-a-day 25: failed candle tremolo
I put a photoresistor into a guitar cable and made a little candle spinner to try to modulate the guitar sound. Somehow it only modulates the background hum.
Inspired by the Candela Vibrophase.
instrument-a-day 24: basse aux pieds
Yesterday I found out about a 19th century instrument, a kind of floor accordion called the basse aux pieds (foot bass). So I made a little digital one.
More about the basse aux pieds, the real one, on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxcqYlKay78. “It’s a truly Belgian instrument.”
instrument-a-day 23: rainy leak bucket
not fixing a hole where the rain gets in
instrument-a-day 22: echo pipes
Long pipes make cool echoes.
instrument-a-day 19: sugar fizz
I noticed that when I drop a lump of sugar in my tea, it makes a tiny fizzing noise. It’s barely audible here.
instrument-a-day 18: whispering imp uke, live at Wordhack
Packaged up yesterday’s whisperer with touch sensors in a broken down toy ukulele. Video from a quick live demo at Wordhack, at Babycastles NYC.
instrument-a-day 16: floor harpsichord prototype
This will be a bigger instrument next month, to be played by dancing.
Unlike a normal harpsichord, it plucks on the way down instead of the way up. The quill is made from a metrocard, and the damper from my old dog Samson’s fur.
