Since I was making so many drawings based on sound and tempo, time and vibration I thought it would be fun to make some unruly instruments. These are all built from beginners enthusiasm and I intend to work on engineering some bridges and pegs and contact mic attachments, though each instrument is different so they will all have to be customized.
No specific system of octaves is recognized here. Every time a new person plays one a different touch brings new frictions and pressures. It’s never exactly the same. In the same way that I am uninterested in making visual compositions that relate to appropriate proportions or some arbitary order that is pleasing or simple to humans because it seems untrue to experience, I am not really interested in making something conforming to a measure.
Anyway, meet the band…..
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Waterphone, welded steel and water, 10” x 10” x 36”
Slowly, very slowly rusting. (You can’t weld stainless steel without releasing toxic gases.)
Artist Kun Kyung Sok plays the waterphone
The ungovernable harpies being played during Song in the Bone. Branches found in Prospect Park strung with banjo and guitar strings. Contact mics, pedals, and amps provided by Mark Reynolds.
Jam night with friends. More audio to come
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.