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Bart Hopkin is a creative organologist, ethnomusicologist, musical instrument inventor, writer, editor, and the publisher of EMI magazine. He is a prolific maker and one of the most significant contributors to the current environment of idiosyncratic musical instruments as a genre. This page is very incomplete and represents what will be one of the largest pages on this wiki. Bart Hopkin has significant contributions and connections to many other makers on this wiki. Expect this page to be one of the longest and most complex pages.

Instruments

Moe' Series
Lamellophones

EMI Magazine

Books

Musical Instrument Design

1996, See Sharp Press

Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones.

Book & CD, Orange, Connecticut: Ellipsis Arts. #3530, 1998

Making Musical Instruments with Kids

See Sharp Press

Slap Tubes and other plosive Aerophones

Made in collaboration with Philip Dadson Published through Experimental Musical Instruments

Getting a Bigger Sound

Bart Hopkin with Robert Cain and Jason Lollar

Making Marimbas and Other Bar Percussion Instruments

Bart Hopkin and Carl Dean with Christopher Banta
Published through Experimental Musical Instruments

Wind Chimes, Design and Construction

published through Experimental Musical Instruments

Funny Noises for the Connoisseur

Book and audio CD – Bart Hopkin with Ray Brunelle and Vincent Nicastro

Air Columns and Tone Holes: Principles for Wind

Published through Experimental Musical Instruments

Nice Noise

Bart Hopkin and Yuri Landman, 72 pgs, 2012, Published through Experimental Musical Instruments

Discography

INSTUMENTARIUM HOPKINIS, Bart Hopkin Plays Invented Instruments, 2002
AFTER SEVEN YEARS, Guitar Music from Bart Hopkin, 2003
BOSSAS, BALLADS, AND BLUES, Dale Polissar, clarinet, and Bart Hopkin, guitar, 2004
21 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THINGS, Sound Instruments Designed by Bart Hopkin, 2007
MELANGE, Dale Polissar, clarinet, and Bart Hopkin, guitar, 2009

Essays

ICICLES AND MORE
SCHMEARY GLISSARY
SLOPPINESS
ANIMATIONS
ADDITIONAL NOTES PERTAINING TO HOMEMADE WOODWIND MAKING
MORE ‘MOE
FORCED VIBRATION
NAMES AND APPEARANCES
SORRY-ASS ORGAN
THE WINDOW OF AUDIBILITY
IMPEDANCE
INSTRUMENTARIUM HOPKINIS SAMPLE LIBRARIES
PALINDROMES
EVERYONE WANTS BEACH-FRONT REAL ESTATE
ELASTIC STRINGS
AGITATION PIPES
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CATEGORIZATION SYSTEMS
ADVENTURES IN FRICTION
FUNDAMENTAL, HARMONICS, OVERTONES, PARTIALS, MODES
ALUMINUM DISK GONGS (Article #2)
ALUMINUM DISK GONGS (Article #1)
ALTERNATIVES FOR PITCH CONTROL IN WIND INSTRUMENTS
PLAY HERE
SOUNDS AND SILENCE
ENGRAVINGS OF EARLY ACOUSTICAL APPARATUS
NORTH-SOUTH/EAST-WEST CHIMES
MASTERY VS. GO-FOR-A-RIDE
OVER-UNDER SCALES
THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
OVERTONES HARMONIC AND INHARMONIC
THE TERRITORY BETWEEN CLEAR PITCH AND PURE NOISE
ORIENTATION OF THE OSCILLATION
MAN, WHAT A WEIRD WORLD THAT WOULD BE (Where would we be without Hooke’s Law?)
SYNTHESIS vs SAMPLING
SCALE AND TIMBRE

Websites

EMI
Windworld

The windworld website was up from 1995 - 2006
It was renamed EMI in 2006 and lasted until it was dismantalled in 2016

People Bart Hopkins has collaborated with

Bart Hopkin is present on the track Keep the Change along with Greg Cohen, Tom Waits, Ric Cole, Bob Hobbs, Darrell DeVore, Stephen Kent, Tom Nunn, Doug Carroll, Spoonman, Rick Hill, Richard Waters and Alex Meier 1)

NOTES

Did Bart Hopkin ever form an ensemble? This seems like an obvious thing for him to make

windworld 2)
Archive of Windworld 3) emi 4)
personal website 5)
youtube channel 6)
Interview 7)
Wikipedia article 8)

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