So far, in those veins, I have learned how to slice threads into a metal rod, and have performed Elizabeth Adams' Trio for plastic, glass, and metal scraped on asphalt.
A Thirty One Tone Singin' Camp is taking shape, to happen in mid-July in NYC. This will be the second year that I attempt to share the skill of vocalizing (with little regard for tonal quality) the pitches of 31-edo, as well as thinking in this more robust system. I was fortunate enough last week to visit Joel Mandelbaum at Queens College, who has a Terpstra generalized keyboard; now I want a hexagonal microtonal keyboard of my very own (or collectively owned by a collective of which I am a member) more than ever.
Project Udderbot, as it were, is a project that I have neglected to treat seriously as a project, I fear. Coming to New York is invigorating it with the possibility of busking (I am looking for a busking partner) and the need for business cards and for revamping and professionalizing my website.
And with that, announcing: I will be playing a new composition loosely based on the murder rhyme Childe Owlet, for a Murder Cabaret Show next Saturday (July 5) at the Tank.
In other udderbot news: I have acquired a jeroboam (3 liter) sized champagne bottle that, once a suitable glove is attached, will make the first Bass Udderbot, a full octave lower than the Tenor! That's the B below the bass staff.
A dearth of visual documentation of the udderbot on the internet is the sad result of not having a camera. Perhaps I can associate myself soon with folks more technologically endowed. Also, I am tired of posting infrequently here and will try to correct that.
2 comments:
My favorite junk instrument is the aeromembranophone. You take a metal peanut butter jar lid, now sadly out of manufacture, and stretch a balloon membrane over it to make a very small snare drum. But the key is blowing across the surface while your lips gently touch the surface of the membrane and the metal lid. Blow hard, but under control and you can create very high pitched shrieks that shift from pitch to chords to ungodly ugly sounds, back to very fine high notes. Give it a try.
Hi - I thought you might be interested to know that the section (now with two people) had the first sectional today, and we used old ones left behind previously (I'd have brought mine, but there seems to be a small hole in the glove, which does not seem conducive to it opening). I want to organize an Udderbot-Making Party so as to have new ones and have some technical questions you might be able to help me with.
1: Is poking still the preferred method for the removal of the bottom of the bottle?
2: What kind of tool works best for this purpose?
Thank you,
.skaryzgik.
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