results of the junk guitar classAugust 2nd, 2008
Electric Junk Guitar Workshop from ranjit on Vimeo.
video documentation
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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.
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lev the thereminbot sings for boingboing tvOctober 3rd, 2007
Lev’s featured in the premiere episode of BoingBoing TV today.
Thanks, boingers!
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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.
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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?
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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.
There’s some photos of Misericordiam al fresco over at flickr.
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sketching device test videosMay 8th, 2002
Here’s a few early videos of the sketching device in action.
sketching device #1 on Vimeo