5. Bronze Eyes
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 […]
2. Must Have Been the Breeze
Build and Design by Francisco Berlanga Exploring the relationship between sound and architecture. This project takes the structure of the breezeblock, iconic to both Vancouver and Mexico City, and explores how instruments might inhabit the blocks. Metal rods and nails protrude from hand cast concrete, weaving through each other reminiscent of the designed facades of […]
3. Pipebau + String’s Web
Build and Design by Daniella Gramani The creation of these two instruments began with a single intention: to explore the sonic possibilities of materials, allowing the same substance to express itself in multiple voices. The first instrument, Pipebau, draws inspiration from the berimbau, the iconic Brazilian capoeira instrument. Its arch is constructed from a pipe, with a single […]
1. BONES
Build and design by Max Ammo Max worked with Bone to build an acoustic instrument that can be amplified using electronics. ABOUT THE ARTIST Beyond a threatening aura and an often veiled presentation, El Ángel Exterminador honours the surreal vision of the film the project is titled after, following the fever dream approach to the […]
4. Ceramic Sticks
Build and Design by Joy Mullen (Joy on Drums) This concept for this project was to make a variety of ceramic drum sticks. I have been intrigued with the idea of using a fragile material to play drums with. Conventional wooden drum sticks are made to be durable and can withstand a lot of force. […]
6. Modular Resonating Steel Square and Round Tubes (Steel Forest – working title)
Design and Build by Anju Singh 66″ x 36″ x 5″ Steel round tubes, steel square tubes, wood, wire, fishing line For this project, I was researching how to build a percussion instrument that would allow for lower pitches to complement the SoundStrike ensemble. SOUND FIRST: I started by pursuing lower pitch sounds and decided […]
Sheet Metal Experiment III: Inducing Resonant Possibilities of Metal
Designed by Anju Singh 13” x 28” x 31” Steel sheet metal, steel plate, aluminum square tube, springs, piano wire This prototype is the third model I created in a series of experiments and designs I developed in my process of developing a metal material based string instrument that allows for various playing styles. Materials […]
Three tines intersect a blue disk
Designed by Roxanne Nesbitt I was interested in making a sound sculpture where the vibrating body and resonator could be interchanged. This allows some flexibility and fluidity in how sound is activated on the instrument. You can bow or strike the rods and the blue metal surface. I was inspired by the instrument inventors François […]
Mungbod
Designed by Zoe Jordan This instrument is inspired by the rainstick and attached to the body, such that the playing of it will generate its own dance or movement vocabulary. While I expect to further experiment with other materials for different sound qualities and effects as well as aesthetic considerations, the current iteration is primarily […]
Suasana
Designed by George Rahi VariableWood and Metal This project explores the acoustic, cultural, and symbolic resonances that emerge when instrumental forms from the pipe organ and the Indonesian gamelan are physically and conceptually joined. At the heart of this prototype is the shared resonator. In gamelan instruments, metal bars are suspended over resonator tubes; in […]
