Snow on a contact mic has a soothing sound.
Good thing the window is clean!
instrument-a-day 21: khionophone
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instrument-a-day 20: window wiper
Wiping an amplified window.
instrument-a-day 19: big spring
big spring with contact microphone.
instrument-a-day 18: cuckoo organ prototype
toot toot toot
instrument-a-day 17: cuckoo organ test
Today a single key, tomorrow an octave?
instrument-a-day 16: singing flower
Spinning flower sings Mozart!
A hastily-constructed Max patch reads a midi file and turns it into rotation speeds for the motorized flower. Based on the wooden synthesizer and an idea by John Glover.
You can actually see the motor seize up when it tries to hit the high note the second time.
instrument-a-day 15: the very large doorbell
A very large doorbell, made out of stuff lying around the studio.
instrument-a-day 14: timbermatic
A labor-saving device for percussionists who have to play Michael Gordon’s Timber
instrument-a-day 13: friday the 13th
A horrible, horrible version of Thelonious Monk’s Friday the 13th played on wooden synthesizer.
(This is a cheat – I didn’t make the synthesizer today. Actually, I recorded the song a few days ago too.)
instrument-a-day 12: reflection tonewheel
Light goes past the waving cat and bounces off the shiny spinning wheel to the sensor. I cut holes in the wheel to approximate a major scale in just intonation.
It works better with light passing through the holes, but the reflection is more fun.