Very nice! This clip proves something I first experienced years ago when I started hanging around Eric Leonardson. Under his influence, you see and hear things a little differently. You never know what can happen. You might find yourself engrossed in aesthetic debate, you might become obsessed with cassette tape recorders, or, as this young man found out, you might find yourself feverishly designing and constructing a bubble organ. Fletcher and Munson had a curve, Nyquist had a theorem, but Leonardson has a mission: to spread around the cool.

That was really cool, ingenius. Try to simulate that sound with a synth! It will probably take you the same time that building the contraption itself! :)

i want lessons! and i love you and miss you!...baby?

Hey that Bubble Organ would perfectly round out this bubble exhibit we will have at Lollapalooza 2007. Aaron get in touch if you are interested!!

Hi, from Salem, MA. After you've got that BFA in you pocket, creative instruments become the artist’s palette. I enjoy tape work and studio in the same style as I learned them from the SAIC sound dept program. I’d like to see what that bubble organ turns out too- after years of process Mr. Wendell. They say that "every artist was first an amateur." G, double O, O, D…..good job, good job!

Hi Aaron, I really enjoyed your concept and construction! I know of an instrument which also uses 'tuned gurgling water' in a different way. The music group Uakti is from Brazil. They have been building experimental musical instruments for decades. On their first CD, they have a piece for an instrument they created which they call "Aqualung - tuned waterfall." It's made of different lengths of PVC pipe through which water runs (via a punp) and gurgles. It only plays one pitch at a time (in contrast to your chords) but the pitch can slide through many notes like a trombone. You can see a photo of it on their 1987 CD simply titled "Uakti" at Amazon - the instrument is white on a black background. I'd be glad to send you a mp3 of the short song (a minute or two long). If you're interested in how it works, Bart Hopkins has written that up in one of his books on experimental musical instruments. The sounds of the instrument I've found on the web are tantalizing but very brief. I'd like to see/hear a lot more - where can we get an entire song? I'm a professor of ethnomusicology and will introduce your fine creation to my students.

how do you think he got the tubes into the water without the water coming back down the tubes and how do you think he released the air into the water