DIY INSTRUMENTS
Sound Sculpture
Le Corbusier Plates (2010) Suspended steel plate sculpture performed with contact mics, inspired by the late architectural structures of Le Corbusier
Spectral Feedback Harp (2009) 9 strings strung through a wood structure, each with a dedicated feedback circuit, consisting of a hacked relay electromagnetic pickup, a power amp circuit and a small speaker, inspired by Horaţiu Rădulescu’s 4th String Quartet for nine string quartets
Rod Sculpture (2009) Rods welded to a suspended metal plate with a hidden reverberating spring, to be performed with contact mics
Spring Reverb Steel Cello (2009) Steel plate with a spring reverb-inspired module suspended by music wire, to be performed with contact mics, deemed “steel cello” as a nod to Robert Rutman’s original design
Record Player (2008) Record player made with steel rods and washers, springs, a speaker, a dressmakers pin, 2 motors, a wheel, a French pump (the turntable), doll heads, a water siphon (red cylinders under doll heads), 2 microswitches and a DIY poweramp
Stringed Instrument (2008) 5-stringed instrument with cello strings, crank shaft, motorized, wooden, wheel “bows,” and guitar tuners and pickups (shown here in various stages of development)
FM Toy (2008) 3-player FM toy with 3 squarewave oscillators, with copper body contacts and plastic funnels
ST-303 (2007) Synthesizer sequencer with 16 square-wave oscillators and an envelope filter/lowpass filter
Cymbal Sculpture (2007) Hand-made cymbals resonated with motorized rods, miced and amplified by preamps and poweramps, which resonate smaller cymbals via piezo disks
Bent Instruments
Speak and Spell (2007) Circuit bent Speak and Spell with 3 bend switches, a loop switch, a detune switch and knob, and a kill switch
Controllers
6-Pushbutton Controllers (2007) a collaboration with Chris Keller, 4 controllers built with PIC microcontrollers using serial protocol via USB connection, with on/off switch
