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| Constance Demby is an early maker of large [[Steel Resonator]] instruments. Her work appears to be inspired by the [[Baschet Bothers]]. Her instrumental performance method is highly idiosyncratic and incorporates elements or spirituality and outsider music. \\ | Constance Demby is an early maker of large [[Steel Resonator]] instruments. She collaborated with [[Robert Rutman]] in the 1960s building various experimental steel sound sculptures at Rutman's gallery "A Fly Can't Bird But A Bird Can Fly". In 1967 Demby and Rutman held several happening-style events that mixed sonic, visual, and performance art centered around big sheets of metal that the artists had found. In one piece called "The Thing", Rutman wore a white cardboard box and banged on Demby's sheet-metal creation with "a rock in a sock." In another piece entitled "Space Mass", Rutman projected film upon a piece of curved sheetmetal onto which Demby had welded several steel rods that she played as a percussion instrument. Rutman later remarked, "We thought it would sound good as a xylophone, but it didn't." ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rutman#Early_life_and_career)) These experiments eventually led to her highly idiosyncratic instruments and performance method. \\ |
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| ==Similar Instruments== | ==Similar Instruments== |
| Robert Rutman's[[ Robert Rutman|Steel Cello]]\\ | Long term collaborator Robert Rutman's [[ Robert Rutman|Steel Cello]]\\ |
| Jan Heinke's [[Jan Heinke|Stahlcello]] \\ | The [[Jan Heinke|Stahlcello]] made by Jan Heinke, A student of Rutman \\ |
| Tom Nunn's [[Crustacean]] \\ | Tom Nunn's [[Crustacean]] \\ |
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| There is another artist by the name Marilyn Donadt that has a very similar instrument, is there a relationship? ((https://www.youtube.com/user/JustImagineMusic)) (())\\ | There is another artist by the name Marilyn Donadt that has a very similar instrument, is there a relationship? ((https://www.youtube.com/user/JustImagineMusic)) (())\\ |
| | Demby maintains that Rutman's instruments are adaptations of her own, they were known collaborators making steel sound sculptures before their own explorations with [[steel resonator instruments]]. \\ |
| What is the relationship to the Crustacean by [[Tom Nunn]], [[Robert Rutman]]'s Steel Cello, [[Jan Heinke]]'s Stahlcello, ect. \\ | What is the relationship to the Crustacean by [[Tom Nunn]], [[Robert Rutman]]'s Steel Cello, [[Jan Heinke]]'s Stahlcello, ect. \\ |
| There seems to be several large bowed steel instrument makers who are interested in a kind of Cosmic sound. \\ | There seems to be several large bowed steel instrument makers who are interested in a kind of Cosmic sound. \\ |
