Fingering away at the tempermental bitch.

Friday morning I did the final soldering of the buttons to the bending wires, this was left to the last day due to the tendency for the circuit board to change more than someone with dissociative identity disorder.

phil noted that there was a degree of secrecy to mine, the basics of the circuit bending was done mostly in class. refinement was done at home due to the low output from the speaker strugling against the subtle air conditioning let alone other instruments. the descisions about interface was done thursday and was left that late due to the interface needed to complement the shape as well as the combonation of jump points (I'll do a whole post dedicated to the design/configuraton next) It was somewhat nice having people wanting to hear what it sounded like, then subsequently complaining about it!

For the grande preformance Zak and I teamed up, our instruments seemed like a natural fit. We had a 15 minute practice session on the day which had a few heads peeking around the door, and could aledgedly be heard from down the hall. I decided to go bare reed since it was a bit louder and I wasn't going to be reliant on the aucoustic aspect of my instrument. The final roster was conocted up and we were drafted up as the finale which was unexpected as the opening and closing are prominent positions. opening has to set the mood for the whole show, the ending has to come across as a solid conclusion. We were the only group that inadvertantly wandered onto the fringe of an experimental genere Drone.




The Preformance:
The piece started with a short burrrrrr from my "|<"eytar a pause and then Zak's klakzon whirring up into life ramping up in pace. the pace for the begining was slow slowly building sound, through the peice the intensity and sound was rising till a point that it was like a heart beat or breathing in out in out in out in out in out. then letting out a final groan and you get the dying sound of the wheel slowing to a stop. Lead photo by Nilesh from Zak's Flickr
Second photo by Judit from My Flickr