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video: making an accordion automaton, in a hurryJuly 21st, 2010

Motherboard tv was kind enough to ask me to make a music machine for them. Here’s their video of the process!

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Noisy noises videoMarch 17th, 2010

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video of coney island installationMay 2nd, 2009

It’s still not quite ready for full-time operation, but now we can crank it up on special occasions!
[video on flickr]

more about sound sculpture for the Coney Island Museum

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interview & video at nyc24May 1st, 2009

nyc24 covered the NYC Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and posted an interview and some footage of me and some of my music machines. (Click the Robot Monkeys video!)

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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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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!

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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)

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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.