Post by Kirkwood Chocolate on Dec 17, 2013 0:05:49 GMT -5
ITT: Instruments that haven't existed before.
so I made a thread on /mu/ asking about this, and it lead to a lot of interesting discussion.
basically what ended up happening is, no one knows what it's called. But apparently some guy saw him live and it's loud as fuck, you're basically damaging your ears if you try to go to a merzbow show without earplugs. it has two 1/4" jacks, one in the long part, one in the circular part. Apparently he switched the two outputs in the middle of the show a couple times as part of the noise, as I'm assuming it goes through two separate filters for each signal. Playing it involves a lot of scraping the springs with blocks of metal or a microphone itself. I'm assuming the long part reverberates with a lower sound from the circular part, which is connected to the springs.
Apparently Buke and Gase have put together all kinds of hardware for their music. also arone has nice feet
They call this a gase, it's a bass and guitar hybrid.
the buke is like a tambourine and a drum put together
apparently Copper-Moore is responsible for this beast
This page explains how to build an esraj, which is sometimes used for drone music and played with a bow.
dennishavlena.com/esraj.htm
Author and Punisher has made some cool stuff
Almost looks like something anybody could pick up and start playing industrial beats with in a few minutes.
For her Biophilia tour and the album, Bjork worked with a few people to design something called the gravity harp.
Bernard Szajner was the inventor of the laser harp
One Anonymous was kind enough to share this little toy he claims to have bought off ebay from a store called Circuit Bent
claims that this is being shipped over
One guy apparently had a hobby of building instruments out of old electronics he found in thrift stores
Said he might upload clips of the sounds they can actually produce later.
And here's a list of random musicians who apparently invent their own instruments not shown here:
Nicolas Collins
David Tudor
David Behrman
Ryu Hankil
Choi Joonyong
Haco
Kanta Horio
Harry Parch
Richard D. James
Jonny Greenwood
And last but not least, here's a fridge that's been modded to play every sunn o))) album live. The modding is pretty straight forward. Make sure it's plugged in though.
so I made a thread on /mu/ asking about this, and it lead to a lot of interesting discussion.
basically what ended up happening is, no one knows what it's called. But apparently some guy saw him live and it's loud as fuck, you're basically damaging your ears if you try to go to a merzbow show without earplugs. it has two 1/4" jacks, one in the long part, one in the circular part. Apparently he switched the two outputs in the middle of the show a couple times as part of the noise, as I'm assuming it goes through two separate filters for each signal. Playing it involves a lot of scraping the springs with blocks of metal or a microphone itself. I'm assuming the long part reverberates with a lower sound from the circular part, which is connected to the springs.
Apparently Buke and Gase have put together all kinds of hardware for their music. also arone has nice feet
They call this a gase, it's a bass and guitar hybrid.
the buke is like a tambourine and a drum put together
apparently Copper-Moore is responsible for this beast
This page explains how to build an esraj, which is sometimes used for drone music and played with a bow.
dennishavlena.com/esraj.htm
Author and Punisher has made some cool stuff
Almost looks like something anybody could pick up and start playing industrial beats with in a few minutes.
For her Biophilia tour and the album, Bjork worked with a few people to design something called the gravity harp.
On a normal harp, a human’s fingers pluck stationary strings. (The “Biophilia” tour employs one such human, Zeena Parkins, whose fingers move masterfully.) But on a gravity harp—on the gravity harp—it’s the strings that move. The pendulums swing in a steady rhythm past four corresponding wooden posts. On each post, held in place by cable ties, is a thick rubber pick, or “plucker.” (“They’re very finger-like,” Cavatorta says.) Eleven strings are arrayed in an arc around each pendulum, held in place by a wooden cylinder. There is a small motor on the bottom of each pendulum, to rotate the cylinder, and a motor on top, to give the pendulum a push if it falls out of tempo. Cavatorta wrote a computer program that tells the bottom motors when, and by how much, to rotate, so that on each swing, the plucker finds the proper string (or no string, if the score calls for a rest).
Bernard Szajner was the inventor of the laser harp
One Anonymous was kind enough to share this little toy he claims to have bought off ebay from a store called Circuit Bent
claims that this is being shipped over
One guy apparently had a hobby of building instruments out of old electronics he found in thrift stores
It is a my little smarty robot toy directly wired into an overdrive pedal, kinda integrating the two circuits into one. Than when stuff is played through the overdrive pedal, wierd robot voice effects mesh into the sounds...also, you can make pitches come out and manipulate them with the light switches (built it before I could afford toggle switches)
Here is another. This one shocks you if you play it wrong though, cause you use ur body to complete electric circuits.
Kinda an unhealthy instrument I guess, but it is a lot of fun
Kinda an unhealthy instrument I guess, but it is a lot of fun
The only one I have a picture of in this is my delay pedal rewired into a drum machine...it works by using alligator clips on the screws.
Sitting near this, and it is my favorite and last instrument I have built, so I will post it.
It plays a few different simple wave types, and the slide determines the pitch. Works great in coordination with the kaoss pad, as that has an overload of effects. Can make technical arpegiations or drone doom with the combination of the two.
Can't see all of the neck in the photo but it is 2.5 feet long
It plays a few different simple wave types, and the slide determines the pitch. Works great in coordination with the kaoss pad, as that has an overload of effects. Can make technical arpegiations or drone doom with the combination of the two.
Can't see all of the neck in the photo but it is 2.5 feet long
Said he might upload clips of the sounds they can actually produce later.
And here's a list of random musicians who apparently invent their own instruments not shown here:
Nicolas Collins
David Tudor
David Behrman
Ryu Hankil
Choi Joonyong
Haco
Kanta Horio
Harry Parch
Richard D. James
Jonny Greenwood
And last but not least, here's a fridge that's been modded to play every sunn o))) album live. The modding is pretty straight forward. Make sure it's plugged in though.
