I like to play with sound, and have visited this site in the past to see if I could find more information about exactly the type of thing that Eric Leonardson is doing - capturing the music of the ordinary. I'm so glad to finally see some coverage of experimental approaches to music making. The bubble organ thing is the coolest! Keep it up, GW!

Eric. it is amazing the complex sounds and compositions you are able to produce from such ordinary materials. Excellent work!

Hello, Eric! I have seen on your page that you are familiar with Hans Reichel and his work but for others I would just like to add a short note. As a guitar player and guitar builder Hans "invented" the Daxophone in late 80s. Basically it's just a wooden stick fixed to a contact microphone box and played with a bow or being struck. He also uses a piece of wood called "dax" to change the pitch of the sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reichel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daxophone I can recommend his album Shanghaied on Tor Road: http://www.fmp-label.de/fmplabel/catalog2/fmpcd046.html Eric, I like your home-made "daxo" board with all these different objects which cover quite a wide range in the spectrum of naturally non-ordinary sounds :) Take care and lots of happy musical hours, Mikka

What kind of contact mic do you recomment?
Thank you jyotix

that would have to be a d ofcourse!

I recommend a film called Shout with John Hurt and Alan Bates. Hurt's character plays with some very interesting techniques involving home-studio handmade sound generators.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078259/

I am looking for advice on how to amplipfy a series of wires or strings that also need to be waterproof for a kinetic artwork. I guess I am looking to purchase a
system of small pickups that could be attached to common objects. Does any such thing exist?
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