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So as my av and text imply, I'm a circuit bender. (Long story short, if you don't know: circuit bending is taking cheap electronic keyboards/toys/noisemakers and deliberately re-wiring them so they glitch out and make sounds they are not meant to make.) So I loooove wild and weird instruments. A few have been posted recently in the #blessed pics thread in GBS, which inspired me to make this thread! Check out this dude playing his homegrown PVC drum kit with flip-flops: This Rube Goldberg instrument just... I can't even fathom the time and effort into making it. It's perfection in aesthetics and execution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q The Wave Organ! Lookit that thing, it's an organ that uses the crashing of waves and tides to make music. Breathtaking. Read more about it here: https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/wave-organ  edit: poo poo, I accidentally hit "submit" instead of "preview". More to come! JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 23:50 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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More to come? I'd love it. In the meantime, have a crazy old uncle playing on a contraption made out of a toilet seat and some metal strings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2qT5h3Xzk
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Nov 20, 2020 11:11
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JacquelineDempsey posted:
Here is a video of the Wave Organ in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3EuI5vSTs
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Nov 20, 2020 15:43
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It isn't as wild as an organ designed to make music based off waves, but what if the organ was the size of a large building and made every sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeB3JnKp8To
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Nov 20, 2020 17:11
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This is really stretching it for being "crazy-rear end", but it's one of the rarer orchestral instruments and it's not uncommon to be absent from orchestras altogether, and is one of my all-time favorite instruments, so here's a shoutout for the contrabassoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B08YMuB6gGQ&t=47s It's got a really beautiful sound for having such a low register. It's really hard to capture in recordings (well, hard for speakers to reproduce) just how special this thing sounds in person. While rarely heard in orchestral music, it does have some very famous parts, like the intro to the extremely-famous opening piece of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPwm0e_K98
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