An improvised ocarina design, laser-cut and assembled from 
Plus a bonus sound for today–crunching through snow with a crispy crust of ice: 
If you’re in the Boston area, you might like this show about art, technology, and spiritualism. My microradio sound art piece “Songs from the Portuguese” is in it. The opening reception is Friday, Jan 28.
It’s almost time for instrument-a-day month again, and I’m celebrating by doing a bunch of instrument-making workshops at NYC Resistor in Brooklyn. First up on Saturday February 5 (1-4pm) is Junk Electric Guitars: make a primitive–but loud!–electric guitar. Here’s video from a previous workshop:
Sign up here.
Coming up later in February:
Laser Whistles – Saturday, February 12, from 1-4 PM
Learn how to use the laser cutter by making wooden whistles, recorders, or ocarinas.
Fun with Sensors – Saturday, February 19, from 1-3 PM
Assemble vibration, light, and magnetic sensors and use them to pick up hidden sounds from the environment and to hear objects and musical instruments in a new way.
Handmade Electronic Noise – Saturday, February 26, from 1-4 PM
Make simple synthesizers and sequencers from dirt-cheap integrated circuits.
I’m still scanning my greenmarket veggies every week. See them all (four hundred and eighty one so far) in the flickr set.
With robot toy piano and more: this Saturday October 23, sometime after 7pm at Babycastles Manhattan, 217 East 42nd (@ 3rd Av).
With flaming, melting instruments: Saturday November 6, after 6pm, at Flux Factory’s Self-Destructing Art Show – Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St in Long Island City.
(Corrected!! Self-Destructing Art Show opens Saturday 11/6, not Friday 11/5.)
(Also! duYun is taking some of my homemade instruments to Shanghai to perform at the Rockbund Art Museum, opening her collaboration with Shahzia Sikander!)
Playing around with the ebassoon, which uses a simple network of dividers to derive a just-intonation scale from a single master tone.
…from John Cage’s Aria, performed by Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices:
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(Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices)
The lobby at 55 Washington was a perfect setting for the accordion robot, with its brushed steel walls and blue neon.
Meet the birds at the Move About Myrtle festival on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn- tomorrow, September 19th!
They’ll also be at the NYC Resistor table at the World Maker Faire in Queens the next weekend (Sept 25-26).
The Case of the Curious Pedestrian at the Move About Myrtle Festival
Just the little “that’s all!” from the ends of a bunch of Annette Hanshaw tunes.
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Some upcoming events that I’m involved with:
…and maybe some other stuff.
