Design and Build by Roxanne Nesbitt
Handmade bronze bells, cotton rope, contact mics
With this work, I combined ancient foundry techniques with intuitive experimentation.
In the pursuit stronger instruments, I have been working on re-making some of my ceramic instrument designs in metal. This piece emerges from that research. I cast a ceramic bell in bronze using sand casting and then cut the single shape into four different bells. I was very happy with the additional dripping texture added by the plasma cutting process and surprised that these pieces needed to be amplified to hear the tones reliably.
This bell was cast and cut at Atelier La Coulée in Montreal.
Roped dyed with red cabbage scraps.
About the Artist
Roxanne Nesbitt is a designer,musician and sound artist of Indo-Caribbean and European ancestry. Her research explores radical instrument design, the hinge between composition and improvisation, and participatory sound installation. Roxanne believes in the power of new instruments to facilitate an exploration of sound free from colonial legacies of exclusion and perfectionism. With formal studies including architecture and classical double bass, Roxanne writes and performs with self-made instruments and a strong visual consideration. She celebrates process making work that is intimate, inquisitive, and exploratory. Roxanne is currently based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, CA). For more info see: roxannenesbitt.com
