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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)
