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Reminds me of those brilliant Animusic clips that were around a few years ago. Not real instruments, of course, but very amusing...and clever.
And lots more if you search for them.Comment
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I'm surprised those spindly legs can support it!Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostWintergatan ~ Marble Machine:
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Gather there is a Marble Machine X, perhaps several of them, which overcomes technical issues with the original version.
Wintergatan are fond of using any number of instruments, conventional and strange:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBK2AF-NdVA
They call themselves "folktronica", but as far as I can see, it's just pop .Comment
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I came across the bass sarrussophone on a Sidney Bechet album. On the track, Mandy Make up your Mind, he plays it with the Clarence Williams Blue Five, including Louis Armstrong, in a 1924 recording:
He even gets a solo at 1.48 after Eve Taylor's vocal.
The instrument did not catch on and it seems to be the only time Bechet recorded it but it does still have its adherents:
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Pity the ophicleide is more or less extinct!Comment
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Anthony Braxton playing the contrabass saxophone at Iridium, 2007:
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Which has a wonderful sound! There is a - possibly unintentionally - funny moment in the middle of one of Stockhausen's compositions, Kontakte, in which a continuous high pitched tone zooms into view over a carpet of lower electronics and is then made to spiral down into the bass, at which point what we detect as continuous tone slows right down to break up into its actual constituent pulses, and I sometimes wonder if it was that capacity of such ultra-low instruments to reproduce this effect of farting out the actual nature of sounds that attracted Braxton to the instrument as much as anything else. He is a great Stockhausian, after all.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostAnthony Braxton playing the contrabass saxophone at Iridium, 2007:
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Pin barrel harp (aka sharpischord) is pretty cool:
courtesy of Mr. Henry Dagg
Mr. Henry Dagg, he of the voicycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGUhGKbr1x8 and much more..
if you're actually interested here's an 11 minute doc about him
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Sam Underwood and his componentised unusual instrument
on Late Junction on Friday, Sam Underwood.
Here he is with his mammoth beat organ :
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That moment in Kontakte (at 17 minutes 0.5 seconds into the tape part) is legendary of course. I don't know whether it would have been the direct inspiration for Braxton's use of the big instruments though - he also plays very small ones. I once saw him (at the Bloomsbury Theatre) play an entire solo set on sopranino.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Here's an unusual instrument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11d2KxBMA3sComment
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