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 Reaching back to the origins of western notation, the author takes a look at Gregorian chant and chant traditions of the world. Then he continues with descriptions of his subliminal-chant generator, which is two voice-synthesizing ICs that he rewired and organized into one sound-producing unit. Practical words on how he built his instrument end in a tantalizing list of resulting sounds. \\ Reaching back to the origins of western notation, the author takes a look at Gregorian chant and chant traditions of the world. Then he continues with descriptions of his subliminal-chant generator, which is two voice-synthesizing ICs that he rewired and organized into one sound-producing unit. Practical words on how he built his instrument end in a tantalizing list of resulting sounds. \\
 [circuit bending; electronics; allophones; phonemes; music history]\\ [circuit bending; electronics; allophones; phonemes; music history]\\
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 +===Letters and Notes===
 +10 pages; 9 pictures; 21 drawings.\\
 +Dwin R. Craig: Amiga computers used for speech synthesis. \\
 +René van Peer: Musical interaction with birds. \\
 +[[Bash the Trash]]: 6 ideas for simply constructed instruments using recycled materials. \\
 +Notes: “Music of the streets” by Michael Colton about car-activated sounds published in The Washington Post Oct 1 1998. \\
 +See www.composersforum.org for info on Harry Partch archives. \\
 +Pictures and short text of Jacques Rémus’ mechanical-acoustic instrument [midi; computers]. \\
 +Information on cigar box guitars from Shane Speal. \\
 +Web site list includes search engine reviews.\\
 +
 +===Polymorphous Percussion Construction; Making Drums out of Everything in Sight===
 +Zeno Okeanos. 6 pages; 19 pictures.\\
 +The author recreates percussion instruments of the world while applying his own ideas and materials. His writing provides information and background on traditional instruments such as tumbao, quinto, palito, congas, shekeres, kettle drums, udu, berimau, cowbells, t’ao ku, and more, and includes construction notes on his own modifications.
 +
 +===The Dolceola; The World’s Smallest Grand Piano===
 +Andy Cohen. 6+ pages; 5 pictures; 1 diagram.\\
 +The dolceola is a miniature acoustic keyboard instrument modeled after a piano that was produced in Toledo, OH at the beginning of the 20th century. This article is a collection of historical facts, speculation and information gleaned from the observation of still existing dolceolas, all of which are the results of the author’s 25 years of researching the instrument. \\
 +[Washington Philips; blues; key action; tuning systems]\\
 +
 +===The New Sax Fingering System===
 +Jim Schmidt. 3 pages; 6 pictures; 3 drawings.\\
 +Using his experience in engineering and machining, the author has redesigned the fingering system for the saxophone. This new system is arranged so that each successive chromatic note lies under each successive finger. Thus, fingering and transposing are simplified and extraneous hardware is eliminated. \\
 +[Boehm fingering system]
 +
 +===Paul Panhuysen’s Long String Installations===
 +René van Peer. 8 pages; 10 pictures; 2 drawings.\\
 +The author reports on the world of long string instruments that Paul Panhuysen has developed in roughly 300 installations over more than 15 years. From interviews and his own observations, the author writes about string materials, architecture, resonators, tunings, tensions and playing techniques both human and mechanical. Some words on Panhuysen’s CD “Three Partitas for Long Strings” describe the technique and results of the recording. \\
 +[Pythagoras]
 +
 +===Laudable Launeddas and Other Reedy Folk===
 +Robin Goodfellow. 4+ pages; 14 drawings.\\
 +This article is the seventh of the author’s series on instruments for children to build. She presents the interesting and comical lore of the launeddas, which is a reed instrument from the Italian island of Sardinia. Then she gives instructions on making a similar idioglot instrument out of soda straws.
 +
 +===Aeolian-Bow Kites in China===
 +Mitchell Clark. 4 pages; 2 pictures; 1 drawing.\\
 +This article presents some history and examines the language related to Chinese Aeolian-bow kites. \\
 +[organology]
 +
 +===Making a Fengqin===
 +Wang Qinian, Wu Guanghui and Yu Jiming. Translated by Mitchell Clark and Rene Yung. 1+ pages; 4 drawings.\\
 +This is a counterpart to the above article describing how to make an Aeolian-bow to add to a kite.\\
 +
 +===The Homemade Clements Plywood Centennial Augustus Stroh Violin===
 +Cary Clements. 5 pages; 12 pictures; 4 drawings.\\
 +The author opens with some brief history of the Stroh violin and then guides the reader through the process of building his own copy.
 +
 +===Deeper into Fleshtone; Sound Energy within the Human Body===
 +Monte Thrasher.\\
 +This is the second article in a series that began in ExMI September 1998 Volume 14 #1. The author unveils further thoughts and inventions related to the human experience of infrasound and tactile sound or fleshtone. The author’s fantasies mingle with devices such as the Bonefone, audiotac, Holophonic recording and much more. \\
 +[sound sculpture; sirens; acoustics; patents.]
 +
 +===Bamboo and Music, Part 2===
 +Richard Waters. 4 pages; 3 pictures.\\
 +This is the second part of an article in EMI December 1998. The author looks at some different species of bamboo and their properties and uses. Then he explains various methods for preserving, curing and working with bamboo. \\
 +[wind instruments; stamping drums; guiro]
 +====#4, JUNE 1999 ====
 +
 +===Letters and Notes===
 +18 pages; 35 pictures; 5 drawings.\\
 +Shane W. Speal: B.B. King’s Mailbox guitar. \\
 +Hugh Davies: Experimental instruments in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. \\
 +Bob Grawi: Pogo stick bumbass, infrasound, double bridge harps and thanks. \\
 +Notes: Report on the San Francisco State University Sinusoidal sound exhibition in March and April 1999. \\
 +David Knott, music therapist, creates a program teaching homeless youth to create their own instruments. \\
 +Alberto Magnin: Building membrane kalimbas and bamboo idiophone resonators.\\
 +James Harbison: A giant rain stick, the Dumpstick, made during residency at San Francisco Recycling and Transfer Station. \\
 +Frank Pahl: Automated door bell instruments. \\
 +Len Maurer strings his walking stick to create the versatile Musicane. \\
 +Michael Bradke’s interactive sound sculptures. \\
 +Hans Tschiritsch, theater musician, builds instruments influenced by the Stroh, hurdy-gurdies, and more. \\
 +Instruments from Hungarian maker, Viktor Lois. \\
 +New instruments and coming CDs from Les Phônes. \\
 +A report on Dr. Cecil Adkins’ lecture and performance on 15th-18th century European instrument, the tromba marina. \\
 +Richard Johnson’s winslaphones combine various types of mouthpieces and bells to create different timbres. \\
 +Bill Reid’s steel sound sculptures. \\
 +Peter Hurney describes “the cold water shower reaction device”.\\
 +
 +===Globular Horns===
 +Barry Hall. 4 + pages; 8 pictures; 1 drawing.\\
 +The author describes his discovery of a globular horn disguised as an udu, and then his development on the theme with globular drum-horns, globular-tubular horns and globular fiddle-horns. He also untangles some of the mysterious behaviors of these instruments.
 +
 +===Freenotes from Richard Cooke===
 +Bart Hopkin. 4 pages; 10 pictures; 1 drawing.\\
 +This is a photo journal of Richard Cooke’s percussion bar instruments with some nice pictures of great instruments and layout ideas. Notes on the instruments from Bart Hopkin.
 +
 +===Journey Through Sand and Flame; A Ceramic Musical Instrument Maker===
 +Brian Ransom. 4 pages; 12 pictures.\\
 +Pictures of beautifully sculpted, ceramic wind, string and percussion instruments illustrate the ideas and developments the author writes of.
 +
 +===The Photosonic Disc===
 +Jacques Dudon. 11 pages; 28 pictures; 2 diagrams.\\
 +This article documents the author’s extensive work with light as a sound source. He uses rotating transparent discs patterned with opaque ink to alternately block and pass light shining through to a photo electric cell to create different timbres and pitches. He writes of his many methods of creating the discs and filtering and modulating their output.\\ [waveforms; harmonics; tunings; Fibonacci; fractals; barabarie organ; sequencing]
 +
 +===The Cultivated Sculptural===
 +[[Ela Lamblin]]. 5 pages; 6 pictures.\\
 +The function and design of instruments made from carrots, bull kelp, bicycles and stones blends with choreography and dance in this description of the author’s work. He and his spouse are working together to create a new genre of performance found in the merging of instrument building, music and dance.
 +
 +===Beyond the Shaker; Experimental Instruments and the New Educational Initiatives===
 +[[John Bertles]]. 5+ pages; 2 pictures; 4 diagrams.\\
 +Out of his work in elementary schools in New York, the author presents ideas for cross-curricular applications of instrument building in the classroom. He opens with some recent history of arts programs in schools, and what is needed to meet current requirements. Then he goes deeper into the connection of instrument building to history, cultural studies, geology, math, science, literacy and environmental studies. \\
 +[finger piano; pan pipes; recycled materials; notation systems; acoustics]\\
 +
 +===No Unifying Idea in the Work of No One in Particular===
 +John Berndt. 4+ pages; 7 pictures.\\
 +The author runs through a selection of his original instruments ranging from amplified acoustic experiments to feedback and circuit bending.
 +
 +===Circuit-Bending and Living Instruments of a Future===
 +Q.R. Ghazala. 9 pages; 16 pictures; 1 drawing.\\
 +The author’s final article for ExMI is a guide for the beginning circuit bender wishing to discover worlds of unintended sounds in toys and other simple sound-making circuitry. He covers all the tools, supplies and techniques one needs to embark on this adventure, and includes illustrative examples of his own instruments. \\
 +[switches; potentiometers; capacitors; photo resistors; solar cells; LEDs; humidity sensors; body contacts; line outputs]
 +
 +===Straws in the Wind, or, the Wind in the Willows===
 +Robin Goodfellow. 5+ pages; 32 drawings.\\
 +To complete her pedagogical series in ExMI, the author presents her pan pipes, slide whistle and oboe made from soda straws. As always, she includes interesting instrumental and cultural lore.
 +
 +===Extra, Extra – Stroh Violins Still Being Made!!!===
 +Cary Clements. 4 pages; 11 pictures.\\
 +The author reports on his research into the making, design, function and use of two contemporary Stroh spin-offs: the Burmese Stroh violin and the Transylvanian funnel fiddle.
 +
 +===Articles We Shoulda Done===
 +Bart Hopkin. 2+ pages.\\
 +These last notes from the editor of EMI include some interesting leads for continued research: novelties from the Deagan company, slide saxophone patents, John Keeley, Chinese-Western orchestral instruments, pedal steel guitar and bell harps.
 ======NOTES====== ======NOTES======
 Instances originally written as "Jew's harp" have been changed to jaw harp. \\ Instances originally written as "Jew's harp" have been changed to jaw harp. \\
 [[Cornelius Cardew]] is strangely never mentioned in the listings of EMI, but is mentioned in relationship to [[Philip Dadson]].  [[Cornelius Cardew]] is strangely never mentioned in the listings of EMI, but is mentioned in relationship to [[Philip Dadson]]. 
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