Once again I’ll be joining Bill Holden next Saturday. He was asked to participate in the TSKZ09, a small festival for “sonic creations + art & science multimedia”.
One of the reasons I have not had time to blog lately is that I was helping him out in building the necessary home made musical instruments. In this case a few Skid’fonias. These are made with an old cross country ski stretched with 3 or 4 wires (it’s a string instrument), placed on two stands (one at each end of the ski) which permits having a foot pedal attached to the bottom center of the ski so it can be pulled downwards. This relaxes the wires, producing various amusing or not sound effects. You play the instrument by hitting the wires with chopsticks or rubbing them with a home made bow, a piece of wood with strings stretched on it. As with most of Bill’s instruments, Styrofoam is attached to the ski in order to augment it’s sonic power. ;-)
Perhaps eventually I’ll have a picture to post…
Bill will be presenting: Back To Borneo, a musical adventure between the Skid’fonias, Tonatems, a group of Theremine players (there is an afternoon workshop where you can learn to build a Theremine but you need to sign up), and various sound making devices scattered among the audience (like balloons filled with a bit of rice).
Come one, come all!