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A Garden of Instruments
Welcome
to the wonderful collection of things which make the HipWorks Mobile Tone-Magnet
such a fun studio to operate. As you will see, some things one might
expect in a studio (drum kit) are absent; while the vast majority of the
other instruments and sonic-objects may be altogether unfamiliar.
I
became deeply interested in finding and incorporating non-Western sounds
into my music in 1985, when I began what would eventually be four cumulative
years living and working in parts of Asia. Later, in 1990-91, access
to the World Trade Center's (in Boston) many international shops and booths
-- many of which sold musical instruments -- brought other ethnicities
into the collection. When I discovered the music and instruments of Harry
Partch, I felt I'd died and gone to Heaven. My fondness for the sound
of the windchimes on the Beach
Boys SMILE
album eventually led me into what has
become a seven-year hobby; building windchimes and what I call "woodchimes".
Devices in ITALICS are self-invented or self-built.
Each
of the following is a link to a photo
(some
of which are lo-rez...sorry) and brief description of something used on
my recorded work.
Have fun browsing!
Enormous
thanks to Bryan Church Smith for the use of his digital camera
during Summer 2001.
New Sonic Objects
Aeolian
Harps Autumn 2003
Panjo
2003
Summer 2003
Zither and Autoharp Summer 2003
"Scirving
1" and "Scirving
2" November 16, 2001
"Hose-Bone"
April 10, 2001
Aural Innovations Article
My Homemade -
(and other) Odd Instruments
[in delicto]
Air-Powered Sonic Objects
whistles
& toys
various
"Gustophones"
Impact-Powered Sonic Objects
"Broke-o-toms"
"Rain-Horn"
"blue
meanie"
"jug-drum"
"electric
wok"
"Atomic
Sleighbells"
"Conlon"
"Electric
Rainstick"
"shoeshine
drum"
toy
xylophone
Pakistani
bells
strikers/mallets/beaters
tubano
conga
Pignose
& simple hand-drum
Korean
temple bells
Korean
'puk' hide-drum
Korean
gongs
double
hand-drum
wood
marimba
various
"Clonkophones"
tiny
toy drum machine
Stringed Sonic Objects
"bend-guitar"
"howler"
"arc"
electric
saz
"banjo-bass"
"barstool-o-caster"
cheap
acoustic mandolin
solid
body electric mandolin
banjo-uke
Strum-stick
MIDI
guitar
acoustic-electric
guitar
dobro
Thai
spike fiddle & Korean "hey-gum" fiddle
Can-Jo
Vietnamese
moon-lute
Keyed Sonic Objects
electric
chord organ
Arp
Quartet keyboard
cheap
sampling keyboard
child's
keyboard
Hohner
Organa12
toy
piano
children's
song-toy
wind-up
musicbox
"The
Homemade Windchime Collection"
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