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results of the junk guitar classAugust 2nd, 2008

Electric Junk Guitar Workshop from ranjit on Vimeo.

more about homemade musical instruments

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trumpet marine at figment festivalJune 27th, 2008

I made a little sound sculpture – a sort of wind-powered banjo – for this weekend’s Figment Festival on Governors Island. Here it is installed on the island’s waterfront by Castle Williams, with a spectacular view of downtown Manhattan. (If you’re in the New York area, come to the festival this weekend – it’s free, and there’s eight million things to see.)

If the wind really picks up, the flowers will spin.

And here’s a video from when I was testing it on my deck.

Update: here’s video from the festival itself.

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pix and sounds from 29 noisy noisesMarch 14th, 2008

Thanks to everyone who came to the 29 Noisy Noises party on March 1 and helped me celebrate finishing 29 instruments in 29 days! Lots of great people came over and made a lot of great noise on the 29 instruments — you can hear some of it below.

– more party photos from Andrew – more from me

electric jam

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“set up a groove”

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coconut & foot

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your branca is leaking

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konono no. 0

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bang on a can

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lev the thereminbot sings for boingboing tvOctober 3rd, 2007

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Lev’s featured in the premiere episode of BoingBoing TV today.

Thanks, boingers!

more about lev

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wired.com: MIDI Ironing Boards, Theremin Crutches Squeal at Handmade Music EventSeptember 29th, 2007

I’m quoted in a wired.com article about the Handmade Music events and homemade instruments.

“There’s already a lot of crap music in the world and it hasn’t killed us.”

More at wired.com, 9/27/07.

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lev plays patsySeptember 22nd, 2007

Here’s LEV again, because one “Crazy” wasn’t enough.

Lev plays Patsy from ranjit on Vimeo.

(also on youtube)

more about lev

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lev and thumpbot play “crazy”September 20th, 2007

Here’s LEV, my theremin-playing robot first seen at Artbots 2003, playing a familiar song with the help of the newly built thumpbot and an obsolete synthesizer.

Lev and Thumpbot play “Crazy” from ranjit on Vimeo.

(also on youtube)

They don’t play so well, but what do you expect from robots?

more about lev

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ranjit in time out nySeptember 20th, 2007

Time Out NY magazine has a small feature about handmade music nights at Etsy Labs, and it includes a little bit about me and a photo of one of my handmade music gadgets.

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handmade music nightSeptember 20th, 2007

Etsy Labs, Create Digital Music, and Make Magazine have been holding a series of handmade music nights at Etsy’s Brooklyn headquarters, where people share the musical gadgets they’ve made. It’s just been featured in Time Out NY (scan). CDM’s got nice wrapups of the first (with video, including me!) and second events.

Here’s a video of the wind-up noisemaker I made for the second handmade music night:

Six keys, four springs, one knob from ranjit on Vimeo.

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video: misericordiam on governor’s islandJuly 8th, 2007

Misericordiam visited the Figment Festival on Governor’s Island, New York City, this July. For the first time, I suspended the piece from a tree in the open air rather than from an indoor framework. It was a beautiful day to hang accordions in trees. Here’s some video from the festival.

Accordions in trees!.

There’s some photos of Misericordiam al fresco over at flickr.

more about misericordiam