10 July 2009
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So much work to be done at Rattlebrained Designs that I haven’t had much time for blogging or much else lately. Sales are down, blame the economy and my incapacity to be mainstream, but visitors are significantly more numerous than in the past so hope there still is to break through somehow.
Fortunately various musical activities have kept me from rotting completely. The Tonatem Time afternoon with Bill Holden down in Ferney-Voltaire was a lot of fun…
1 June 2008
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Bill and I spent a few days last month building the “musical instrument” pictured here. The idea is that the spoons bounce off the strings at different speeds since they are attached to rods of different lengths. You push down on the tennis balls, release them and the spoon just bounces off the string, like boing, boing, boing accelerating as the spoon bounces less high and ending up with a fast little bing, bing bing that turns into nothing as the sound dies out.
20 March 2008
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Yesterday’s event went well but for the moment I don’t have any pictures to show and I’m sure it’s hard to imagine especially since my writing lacks the necessary skills for descriptions.
The weather was better than predicted since we expected rain and it was just a bit overcast, however a strong north wind was blowing and it was near zero degrees so most of our drumming probably ended up blown down the street. One of our worries was that the garbage trucks would make so much noise that all of ours would be covered, a needless worry…
18 March 2008
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A few week back Bill hired me to help in a project that he had just been engaged for, which takes place today at lunch time. Along with two other guys, I will be banging a series of rhythms (rock, swing, waltz, samba…) on a big metal oil barrel while three other musicians blow into home made horns. Really home made! With bits of garden hoses, plastic tubings, big coffee cans and a bunch of little details to hard to describe here. Ill try and get a picture or two.
While we play, six actors will be dancing and moving 5 large, and way to heavy, white cubes with a big letters to form different words. This for a reason that I dare not say yet, since it is secret.