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the Music Box Orchestra, New Orleans

ranjit — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:51:57 +0000

Here’s a teaser video of the New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Orchestra, a big crazy sound art/architecture project I helped out with. My contribution was the squeaky moving floor, which you can see providing the bass line as the performance starts.

The Music Box – Oct 22 from TungstenMonkey on Vimeo.

meet the JelTone!

ranjit — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:20:55 +0000

Over at NYC Resistor, we put together a little team to enter the Jello Mold Competition at Gowanus Studio Space. The team members were me, Astrida Valigorsky, Mimi Hui, and Catarina Mota. After a false start or two, we ended up making a working toy piano out of jello (and some electronics). The Resistor JelTone tied for the Creativity Prize, and you can see it in the videos below.

That same weekend, I took some of my homemade instruments, including the 8-bit violin and a second JelTone (built in haste at the last possible minute), to the Solid Sound Music Festival for the CDM/Moog Handmade Lounge. After all my jello melted, on the second day of the festival I rebuilt the JelTone with fruit salad instead, and here it is:

(mailing list archive) noises of summer

ranjit — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:10:37 +0000

I saw a firefly a few days ago, so it’s summer now, whatever the calendar says. Last weekend was the annual Figment Festival on Governors Island, and I brought back my 2008 wind-powered sound sculpture in a new cyborg body. Here’s a video:

I was lucky to be chosen as one of the Queens Museum of Art‘s sound art residents this month, so I’ve been working with my collection of vintage automatic music toys, and I’ll give a presentation/performance this Saturday (June 18th) at 5pm. The performance is free, but come early and check out the rest of the museum, including the famous Panorama of the City of New York! Event into: facebook.com/event.php?eid=229965507015603

Here’s the toy collection:

The following weekend, I’ll be at the Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA) as part of Peter Kirn’s Handmade Music Lounge: solidsoundfestival.com/exhibits

Coming up in July: a workshop at the Peabody Essex Museum near Boston, the Sketching in Hardware conference in Philadelphia, and a field trip to the Lightning Field in New Mexico!

What are you up to?

8-bit violin played by real fiddlers!

ranjit — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:43:41 +0000

These guys at the Thingamajigs DIY Instruments Tailgate Party really know how to operate a pointy rectangular fiddle!

Thanks, CTP, for the videos.

Misericordiam at the DUMBO Arts Festival

ranjit — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 04:27:08 +0000

Misericordiam at the DUMBO Arts Festival, originally uploaded by ranjit.

The lobby at 55 Washington was a perfect setting for the accordion robot, with its brushed steel walls and blue neon.

video: making an accordion automaton, in a hurry

ranjit — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:02:09 +0000

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

Noisy noises video

ranjit — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:10:19 +0000

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video of coney island installation

ranjit — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:05:41 +0000

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

interview & video at nyc24

ranjit — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:57:47 +0000

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!)

results of the junk guitar class

ranjit — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:15:09 +0000

Electric Junk Guitar Workshop from ranjit on Vimeo.

trumpet marine at figment festival

ranjit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:59:14 +0000

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.

lev the thereminbot sings for boingboing tv

ranjit — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:02:11 +0000

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

Thanks, boingers!

lev plays patsy

ranjit — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:29:38 +0000

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

Lev plays Patsy from ranjit on Vimeo.

(also on youtube)

lev and thumpbot play “crazy”

ranjit — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:17:03 +0000

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?

handmade music night

ranjit — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:05:19 +0000

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.

video: misericordiam on governor’s island

ranjit — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:21:30 +0000

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.

a video tour of the fluxbox

ranjit — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:54:16 +0000

The FluxBox Experience on Vimeo

lev’s first song

ranjit — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:10:49 +0000

lev’s first song on Vimeo

sketching device test videos

ranjit — Thu, 09 May 2002 03:43:07 +0000

Here’s a few early videos of the sketching device in action.

sketching device #1 on Vimeo

sketching device #1 and toy dogs on Vimeo