EMI https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ 2026-05-19T04:03:12+00:00 https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/_media/logo.png text/html 2022-09-01T10:45:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/3rd_bridge?rev=1662029114&do=diff A 3rd bridge is created when a string is divided in such a manner that the division acts as a brake between its two segments and this brake is also able to be freely moved. This is typically done with a rigid slide such as a glass bottle, vial, or metal rod. Instruments that use this feature also typically have ways of amplifying both end of the strings sound. The sounds produced from the unexcited end of the string (the reciprocal end) are called text/html 2024-01-27T23:25:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/1900s_pitch?rev=1706397930&do=diff LOW PITCH & HIGH PITCH Many historic instruments, especially wind instruments sold in the 1910s-1930s came in two separate pitch classes, Low Pitch and High Pitch. Companies that commonly made Low & High pitch instrument include C. G. Conn and Buescher. text/html 2019-11-20T10:30:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/aaron_wendel?rev=1574245848&do=diff Aaron Wendel built the Bubble Organ as part of the musical instrument building class taught by Eric Leonardson at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Feature on oddmusic Youtube video of an interview with Aaron- Brief video of the organ itself text/html 2018-07-20T01:13:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/aerophones?rev=1532049188&do=diff Vibrating an air column generates sound 1.1 Free aerophones (41) 1.1.1 Displacement free aerophones (411) 1.1.2 Interruptive free aerophones (412) 1.1.3 Plosive aerophones (413) 1.2 Non-free aerophones (wind instruments proper) (42) 1.2.1 Edge-blown aerophones or flutes (421) 1.2.2 Reed aerophones (422) 1.2.3 Trumpets (423) 1.3 Unclassified aerophones (43) text/html 2019-11-15T13:35:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/alan_albright?rev=1573824951&do=diff Alan Albright is an experimental ocarina maker who was an early maker of wooden ocarinas, as well as an early adopter of the 4 hole playing system. He is likely responsible for the first double ocarina that uses cross fingerings to give an octave range to both chambers of the instrument. His work inspired the work of Chris Hind and text/html 2019-10-11T08:38:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/alice_eldridge?rev=1570783122&do=diff <https://youtu.be/hJHwhb99Bzo?t=1543> <http://www.ecila.org> text/html 2024-01-24T01:46:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/alloys?rev=1706060780&do=diff Gamelan Alloys metal Bronze alloys in gamelan instruments can very dramatically between various gamelan makers. Of the makers that use Copper Tin alloys, high tin (greater than 17% by weight) are preferred. Typically the traditional alloys used vary between 20-24% tin by weight. text/html 2019-10-25T08:55:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/anarchestra?rev=1571993745&do=diff Created by Andy Thurlow the Anarchestra is a set of over 200 autodidactic instruments. The instruments are set up as an interactive art installation allowing play by the public focusing on allowing unskilled people to play the instruments. The majority of the instruments are tuned to A minor, allowing a key that has few dissonant notes. text/html 2019-11-15T13:24:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/angel_sampedro_del_rio?rev=1573824253&do=diff featured on oddmusic- official website (partly defunct)- text/html 2019-10-25T11:15:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/anthony_belvado?rev=1572002119&do=diff Short bio- <https://folkartmarket.org/artist/anthony-belvado/> another page on Belvado. <https://sarweb.org/iarc/native-american-artist-fellowships/2014-artists/anthony-belvado/> A fantastic Documentary on his instrument making. Garry kling interview with Anthony Belvado. text/html 2019-11-21T03:08:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/barry_hall?rev=1574305731&do=diff Barry Hall is a ceramic musical instrument maker. He is a maker and a member of the Burnt Earth Ensemble He was a frequent contributor to EMI magazine. He is the author of the book “From Mud to Music”. . Feature on Oddmusic- Featured on Windworld. Official website. text/html 2020-08-12T05:06:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/bart_hopkin?rev=1597208818&do=diff 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 … text/html 2021-11-03T10:33:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/baschet_brothers?rev=1635935598&do=diff Brothers Bernard and François Baschet collaborated in the construction of a large number of musical instruments. Bernard was an engineer and François a sculptor, both living in Paris. The two collaborated in the construction of a large number of complex metal instruments such as the Cristal Baschet. text/html 2020-04-02T11:44:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/bash_the_trash?rev=1585827840&do=diff Bash the Trash is an educational music ensemble which uses homemade instruments made out of found objects and 'trash' by members of the ensemble. The group was co-founded by John Bertles who is an instrument maker and educator. The primary function of the ensemble is children's education surrounding sound making principles, instrument making, music, repurposing and environmentalism. The ensemble is often shifting between new players and the instruments featured. The ensemble is structured around… text/html 2022-12-03T18:18:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/books?rev=1670091531&do=diff On this page I plan to make a reading list that includes books published by the various makers in this wiki as well as books about those makers and the instruments they build. This page will also include a section on books that demonstrate instrument building theory and methods that are relevant to making musical instruments. text/html 2019-03-21T06:42:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/bowed_metal_rods?rev=1553150579&do=diff Nail Violin Waterphone Crustacean Space Bass Steel Cello Stahlcello text/html 2021-03-13T18:37:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/bradford_reed?rev=1615660660&do=diff NOTES Featured on oddmusic- featured on oddstruments Official website Bradford Reed is featured in the book Orbitones, Spoon Harps and Bellowphones by Bart Hopkin. Official youtube- text/html 2022-10-19T07:45:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/bruno_zamborlin?rev=1666165523&do=diff Bruno Zamborlin in a London based artificial intelligence researcher who makes electronic instruments that use contact microphones and augmented reality. He is known for his Hypersurfaces. Hypersurfaces Zamborlin's hypersurfaces are an Iterative project that started with making augmented reality musical instruments out of any surfaces that can have contact microphones rigged onto them. The audio recorded by the contact microphones is augmented using an artificial intelligence that can make th… text/html 2021-06-29T03:09:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/bryan_day?rev=1624936188&do=diff Bryan Day is an instrument maker and performer based out of Richmond, CA. He is a member of the Euphotic ensemble along with Cheryl Leonard and Tom Djll. Bryan makes acoustic electric instruments. He is known for his Metric Tapewarp which is made of measuring tape segments and works similar to a kalimba but makes much more unusual sounds by bending and manipulating the measuring tapes. text/html 2021-01-11T07:05:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/budding_makers?rev=1610348731&do=diff I moved this page to Fledgling, check there if you would like to see this list with further updates. Clark Battle- Evolano, an amazing innovation on being able to produce pitch fluid string bends while maintaining chordal structure. Mattias Krantz- Modifies instruments where he experiments with absurd ideas to hear what it will sound like text/html 2019-11-21T03:05:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/burnt_earth_ensemble?rev=1574305552&do=diff The Burnt Earth Ensemble is a set of instruments built by Barry Hall that are made mostly of ceramics. members Mark Attebery Geoff Brown Barry Hall- the instrument builder for the ensemble. Beth Hall Richard Smith Stephen Kent Alan Tower- plays on Sharon Rowell's Huacas Featured on text/html 2019-12-31T12:01:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/buzz_kimball?rev=1577793668&do=diff Buzz Kimball is a early member of the Xenharmonic movement. He is a contributor to EMI Magazine. He has built many 3rd Bridge Guitars and various Experimental Gamelan instruments. feature on Oddmusic Website Kimball's website has a unusual introduction to Xenharmonic music makers text/html 2020-05-14T02:10:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/cabo_san_roque?rev=1589422232&do=diff Cabosanroque is a collaborative of sound artists Laia Torrents and Roger Aixut, based in Barcelona. In group works variously between experimental music, plastic and performing arts, their work aims the expressive possibilities of machine, object and sound. They often produce architectural installations. text/html 2021-08-30T06:23:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/caleb_byerly?rev=1630304611&do=diff Caleb Byerly is a North Carolina based instrument maker, christian missionary, and controversial figure in the instrument making community. Instruments Salimbaa According to Atlanta Magazine- The primitive appearance of strings stretched across a wood-topped steel bowl is deceptive. The 36 strings are doubled up, with half the strings played by a mallet while the other half resonate in harmony beneath. Plus, the Salimbaa is chromatically tuned, which means that the player need only turn the… text/html 2024-09-06T07:39:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/car_culture_annotated?rev=1725608350&do=diff CAR CULTURE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Summarize the text Asses the text Reflect on the texts relevance to your research topic Orchestrating Automobile Technology: Comfort, Mobility Culture, and the Construction of the “Family Touring Car,” 1917–1940." text/html 2024-09-06T07:38:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/car_culture_bibliography?rev=1725608295&do=diff CAR SOUND CULTURE BIBLIOGRAPHY This is the speculative bibliography for the car culture essay Scholarly work on the subject Karin Bijsterveld, Listening to Machines: Industrial Noise, Hearing Loss and the Cultural Meaning of Sound, Sound Studies Reader text/html 2024-09-06T07:40:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/car_culture_literature_review?rev=1725608411&do=diff CAR CULTURE LITERATURE REVIEW In Orchestrating Automobile Technology: Comfort, Mobility Culture, and the Construction of the “Family Touring Car,” 1917–1940.“ Gijs Mom presents a concise history of the ways in which sound becomes an important element of car design. This essay outlines the development of a closed car, and a clear timeline of how specific elements of car design were preferred over others throughout the 1920-40s. The essay also discusses the ways in which car culture and design in… text/html 2024-09-12T07:13:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/car_culture_research_statement?rev=1726125182&do=diff CAR CULTURE RESEARCH STATEMENT VERSION 1 Sounds of a Future Landscape: The Nascent World of Electric Car Sounds We are at a pivotal moment, one where the development of a whole new landscape of car sounds is happening all around us in a grand social experiment that will completely change the ways that our cities and towns sound. We are living through a dramatic change in the ways that urban spaces sound all because of the electric car. Electric vehicles make almost no sound while driving at s… text/html 2024-09-12T07:12:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/car_culture?rev=1726125131&do=diff CAR SOUND CULTURE MAIN Competitive Edge Program Research Topics RESEARCH NOTES LOOSE THOUGHTS sound of horses in cars, for example horse power and the mustang, elements of elegance in design being compared to racehorses who designed vs 'we designed' what are the names lost to history, specific labor and people in the design process. Do the people who design electric car sounds have names? text/html 2019-11-20T10:53:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/car_music_project?rev=1574247220&do=diff The Car Music project is a band that performs on instruments made of parts of a 1982 Honda Accord. The project was started by Bill Milbrodt. The instruments of the car orchestra were built by Ray Faunce. Feature on oddmusic- The official website (defunct)- Wikipedia article on the Car Music project text/html 2023-01-13T12:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/carleen_hutchins?rev=1673613528&do=diff Dr. Carleen Maley Hutchins was an experimental violin maker, Creator and founder of the Hutchins Consort and cofounder of the Catgut Acoustical Society. Experiments on Violas Hutchins developed a acoustically balanced viola which she would later call the alto violin. Due to the traditional over the shoulder playing method of the viola there are major acoustic flaws with the instruments as the string length is shorter then ideal and the internal volume of the instrument is also smaller then id… text/html 2021-03-18T03:06:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/cassiopeia_sturm?rev=1616036790&do=diff Cassiopeia Strum Cassie is an instrument builder that focuses on creating instruments that extend the body, influenced by posthuman and science fiction themes. Her instruments often brake the established rules of instrument construction and performance. text/html 2020-07-30T03:35:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/categories?rev=1596080152&do=diff These categories will eventually be tagged so that all instruments on this wiki will show up in lists by instrument type. This will be a late stage development on this wiki. 1 Idiophones vibrating instrument body 2 Membranophones vibrating membrane 3 Chordophones vibrating strings text/html 2019-04-05T21:48:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/chase_coley?rev=1554500918&do=diff text/html 2020-02-21T10:21:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/cheryl_leonard?rev=1582280519&do=diff Cheryl Leonard is a member of the Euphotic ensemble along with Bryan Day and Tom Djll. She is known for her conceptual sculptural instruments that employ found natural materials such as animal bones, driftwood and pine cones. The sonic profiles in her work are often employed in the creation of soundscapes and drones. text/html 2018-07-20T01:12:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/chordophones?rev=1532049160&do=diff Vibrating a string length generates sound 1.1 Simple chordophones or zithers (31) 1.1.1 Bar or stick zithers (311) 1.1.2 Tube zithers (312) 1.1.3 Raft zithers (313) 1.1.4 Board zithers (314) 1.1.5 Trough zithers (315) 1.1.6 Frame zithers (316) 1.2 Composite chordophones (32) 1.2.1 Lutes (321) 1.2.2 Harps (322) 1.2.3 Harp lutes (323) 1.3 Unclassified chordophones (33) text/html 2020-04-30T08:52:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/chris_andersen?rev=1588236731&do=diff Chris Andersen is a musical instrument builder who is based in Klingston, Bali, Indonesia. He invents various metal musical instruments for the Bali Steel Pan company. The instruments he builds are largely intended to play gamelan adjacent music. Some of his work can be considered text/html 2020-03-27T10:58:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/christof_schlaeger?rev=1585306729&do=diff Website Official Facebook page text/html 2024-01-24T01:41:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/classification_revisions?rev=1706060510&do=diff Version 0.7 Change in the definition of a musical instrument Old- Any sound generating device that is used for the purpose of making music. New- Any sound generating device that can be used for the purpose of making music. Version 0.6 Clarification on meanings text/html 2024-01-24T01:41:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/classification_table?rev=1706060477&do=diff This is the in progress classification table for 'Hicks' classification. Things are rapidly changing on this table and it is recommended to note that numbering and organization on this table will be changing and as of now the numbering system is unlikely to remain internally consistent. It is not recommended you use this table at this time to classify any sounds. text/html 2024-04-03T00:33:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/classifying_brass?rev=1712104398&do=diff CLASSIFYING BRASS INSTRUMENTS By Length of Tubing 1.5 feet of tubing (F5) cornettino 2 feet of tubing (C5) Piccolo Trumpet, Sopranino Saxhorn, Alto Cornetto 2.25 feet of tubing (Bb4) Piccolo Trumpet, Piccolo Trombone, Sopranino Saxhorn 2.4 feet of tubing (A3) text/html 2020-08-11T11:41:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/constance_demby?rev=1597146091&do=diff 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 text/html 2020-10-29T00:06:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/cornelius_cardew?rev=1603929991&do=diff Cornelius Cardew is one of the most enigmatic and significant figures featured on this wiki. He is instrumental in the creation of the Scratch Orchestra, which had many members who are also featured on this wiki as well as many others who consider it a key influencing force in their interest in creating musical instruments. This will be one of the longest and complex pages about an instrument maker on this wiki. text/html 2019-03-21T19:25:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/cpmstamce_demby?rev=1553196347&do=diff text/html 2020-08-10T06:20:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/craig_huxley?rev=1597040418&do=diff Craig Huxley invented the Blaster Beam, a Long-String Instrument that is used to make various scifi sound effects. “Famously featured on Micheal Jackson's hits such as “Beat It,” all 10 Star Trek motion pictures, and more recently JJ Abrams' “10 Cloverfield Lane,” text/html 2023-01-25T09:10:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/cris_forster?rev=1674637839&do=diff Instruments Glassdance Chrysalis I Chrysalis II Harmonic/Melodic Canon Bass Canon Just Keys Diamond Marimba I Diamond Marimba II Bass Marimba Flutes NOTES Youtube Channel Writer of Musical Mathematics: On the Art and Science of Acoustic Instruments text/html 2019-11-15T13:22:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/curtis_settino?rev=1573824126&do=diff featured on oddmusic official website (old) text/html 2020-04-08T13:07:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/dan_conrad?rev=1586351247&do=diff Daniel Conrad is a musician and artist who works with light and sound. He plays the chromaccord which is an instrument for playing kinetic colors. He makes experimental musical inventions, that are sometimes used in his works. He also plays the Daxophone. Instruments text/html 2022-04-05T10:47:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/daniel_corral?rev=1649155648&do=diff Daniel Corral is most known for making use of button controllers to make microtonal audio visual music. He also makes various cacophonous sound sculptures out of music boxes that are controlled through mechanical means. Official Youtube Website text/html 2024-05-04T08:41:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/daniel_fishkin?rev=1714812075&do=diff Daniel Fishkin is a builder of Daxophone adjacent instruments and the builder of the Lady’s Harp. NOTES Daniel Fishkin runs the daxophone consort Official website- Official Soundcloud Youtube An interview and artist talk with Daniel Fishkin and Peter Blasser text/html 2020-05-20T11:57:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/darrell_devore?rev=1589975831&do=diff Darrell DeVore also known as Dr. Um, was an enigmatic figure, and a free jazz instrument builder. He is known for his use of bamboo as well as inventing the rubber band Bullroarer. He lived in Petaluma, CA. Little information is available about his instruments and work online but plenty of context to understand he has made more then a few idiosyncratic instruments. text/html 2020-01-07T09:49:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/david_bellinger?rev=1578390563&do=diff Known for his Kalimba varients David Bellinger is the inventor of the Violimba, an instrument with Bowed Tongues. Official website (Doesnt feature his experimental instruments) Feature of his Violimba on Oddmusic. . Feature of his Electric Bass Kalimba . Feature of his Koralimba text/html 2020-11-17T07:20:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/david_castiblanco?rev=1605597601&do=diff David Castiblanco is the instrument maker for the group Latin Latas. He has said his primary inspirations are education and environmentalism. He actively seeks out new sounds saying that instead of making many traditional instrument out of garbage he would rather make instruments that draw out the sounds of the materials themselves, leading to new and original tonal colors. text/html 2020-05-21T01:57:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/david_klavins?rev=1590026233&do=diff David Klavins is a custom piano builder who is interested in extending the tonal color and range of the piano. He is interested in increasing the clarity of sound of the piano. Instruments David Klavins has built multiple pianos with reduced frames to allow the resonance of the strings to be more direct to the listener. text/html 2020-01-07T09:53:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/david_murphy?rev=1578390820&do=diff David Murphy is an Australian musical sculptor. Feature of his Circular Harp on Oddmusic Feature of his Weather Harp official website text/html 2024-01-24T01:49:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/daxophone?rev=1706060956&do=diff DAXOPHONE The Daxophone is a friction idiophone invented by Hans Reichel. This instrument is notable for its voice like tone quality and the unusual array of sound effect like sounds it can make. The instrument is notable for the amount of builders who have independantly build their own versions of the instrument. text/html 2020-01-07T09:36:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/dennis_bathory-kitsz?rev=1578389773&do=diff Dennis Báthory-Kitsz makes diverse experimental instruments often to solve the needs of unusual musical situations. He has made many instruments for experimental composers such as Christian Wolff, David Gunn, and Linda Kay. Official Website Official Youtube text/html 2022-10-17T11:13:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/dennis_havlena?rev=1666005182&do=diff Dennis Havlena is a DIY musical instrument builder based in Norther Michigan who makes guides to building inexpensive musical instruments. He has released over 100 guides o how to build and modify various musical instruments. The majority of the materials he uses are available from ordinary hardware stores and there a great deal of resourcefulness to his methodology in construction. There is a focus on low tech solutions and careful consideration about the materials that are suggested for use. text/html 2019-08-30T06:43:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/diana_deutsch?rev=1567147408&do=diff text/html 2024-01-24T01:51:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/didgeridoo?rev=1706061109&do=diff Innovations on the Didgeridoo Chromatic Didgeridoos The Nu, or Chromatic Didgeridoo, was invented by Erik Nugent . Only one known instrument exists. The Keyed Didgeridoo (also called the Orchestral Didgeridoo) was built some time around 1990 by Graham Wiggins. Only one known instrument exists. text/html 2024-01-24T01:44:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/dog_whistle?rev=1706060665&do=diff The dog whistle is an instrument that is rife with misinformation and misleading cultural touch points. What is a Dog Whistle? Variable Pitch Whistles The Galton Whistle History of the Dog Whistle Range of the Dog Whistle Range as presented in the media text/html 2019-10-28T23:31:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ed_potokar?rev=1572305511&do=diff Inventor of the contraverb official vimeo <https://vimeo.com/user15153136> website- <http://edpotokar.com/> text/html 2020-03-13T03:13:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/edward_powell?rev=1584069239&do=diff Edward Powell is a luthier who makes experimental string instruments that are intended to play Indian style music. Many of his instruments are variations of traditional Indian instruments that have innovations intended to expand the possibilities of Indian music that can be played on them. text/html 2020-05-27T11:50:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ei_wada?rev=1590580238&do=diff Ei Wada rebuilds old electric appliances into electronic musical instruments, and creates and exhibits works of art and music performed by new and unique methods. He is a musician, sound sculptor, and prolific instrument builder based in Tokyo, Japan. He is the instrument designer and composer for two ensembles the ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! and Open Reel Ensemble. text/html 2020-04-28T07:44:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ela_lamblin?rev=1588059873&do=diff Ela Lamblin is an intermedia instrument maker who builds sculptural instruments that are activated by dance. The instruments are often on a complex mix of dance performance, visual allure, and innovative technology with the scores and dance performances being synonymous. text/html 2022-10-12T18:36:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/electroacoustic?rev=1665599811&do=diff An Electroacoustic musical instrument is any acoustic musical instrument that makes use of electronic means to amplify, alter, or enhance the timbre produced by the acoustic instrument. This can include the use of signal processing, electromagnetic tape, low and high pass filters, reverb, and harmonizing. The modification of an instruments timbre can be done with purely analog electronics as well as digital computing. The acoustic instrument can be allowed to resonate on its own with the accompa… text/html 2023-07-21T01:48:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/electromechanical?rev=1689904096&do=diff An electromechanical component is one that uses an electrical signal to cause some kind of mechanical change, such as a motor turning. Often this is done by an electrical current that creates a magnetic field which causes a physical movement. Electromechanical musical instruments are ones that use electricity to move parts that generate an acoustic sound. This does not include instruments that use a more complex processing of electricity such as speakers, modulators, or synthesizers. Examples ca… text/html 2019-11-05T11:28:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/electrophones?rev=1572953338&do=diff This category is for electric mechanisms that generate sound. text/html 2022-09-29T01:09:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/emi?rev=1664413775&do=diff Experimental Musical Instruments was a magazine that was published by Bart Hopkin and ran from 1985 to 1999. This page will compile a list of instruments and makers that were featured in the magazine. Link to PDFs of all back issues of EMI on Archive.org- Most of the information and descriptions has been pulled from text/html 2020-04-16T08:19:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/enrico_ascoli?rev=1587025184&do=diff Enrico Ascoli is a conceptual sound sculptor working out of Paris France. Sculptures Notes Bandcamp Twitter Vimeo Facebook page text/html 2026-05-15T02:23:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ensembles?rev=1778811821&do=diff This is a list of musical ensembles that have instruments that are featured on this wiki. This list also features some categories of ensembles as well as a few musical instrument companies that have built series of instruments. A Anaphoria Instruments Anarchestra Artigiano del suono- Italian ensemble, makers include text/html 2019-11-20T10:22:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/eric_leonardson?rev=1574245345&do=diff Eric Leonardson Teaches musical instrument building at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) one of his students was Aaron Wendel who built the Bubble Organ . official youtube personal website- text/html 2019-12-04T11:25:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/eric_royer?rev=1575458757&do=diff Royer's One man band website Feature on oddmusic - text/html 2024-07-03T03:08:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/essays?rev=1719976088&do=diff This is a list of the various music related essays I have written. All essays on this wiki should be considered in progress and not in any form complete. For completed essays please see my main website . This wiki is for my research notes and the essays featured here are subject to being changed as my research on their topics progresses. These changes can be all at once and rapid or prolonged and awaiting specific pinpoints of information to become available. text/html 2021-03-17T12:31:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/essential_sound?rev=1615984277&do=diff An essential sound is one made based off of purely the material properties of the object itself, and that any objects involved constitute a musical instrument. This philosophy is present in many lowercase works and often bends the definition of a musical instrument and the ways that musical interaction is thought of. This concept is sometimes a key feature of text/html 2022-09-13T08:02:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/events?rev=1663056145&do=diff Competitions & Events The Instrument Builders Project Instrument Builders Project is a forum for experimental work – at the intersection of contemporary art, sound and music, and performance – engaging artists from Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Each IBP culminates in new and experimental works in the form of ‘instruments’. text/html 2024-01-24T01:47:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/experimental_gamelan?rev=1706060825&do=diff Experimental Gamelan American Gamelan Barbara Benary Gamelan Son of Lion Built by Barbara Benary along with with Philip Corner and Daniel Goode Here is a short video with Barbara Benary explaining the history of Son of Lion and the connection with other American Gamelan. text/html 2019-04-05T21:47:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/fernando_vigueras?rev=1554500856&do=diff text/html 2024-07-02T01:21:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/fledgling?rev=1719883308&do=diff Clark Battle- Evolano, an amazing innovation on being able to produce pitch fluid string bends while maintaining chordal structure. Rodney Berry- Liam Byrne- Winne Clement- Flute maker who has made several very large overtone flutes Dylan Crismani- Australian builder of new Harry Partch and Baschet Brothers style instruments. text/html 2024-10-29T22:53:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/fluefferdaemmerung?rev=1730242433&do=diff Flüfferdämmerung Flüfferdämmerung is a furry opera, which name translates to Whisper Twilight. It is also being called a 'Nordic Opera'. it took place on February 22nd, 2024, in Malmö, Sweden during NordicFuzzCon. This opera is being called the 'first furry opera' online and has attracted some media attention as well as some attention in the furry community. Understanding the context of what this is takes a lot of introduction about furries. text/html 2020-08-10T06:22:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/francisco_lupica?rev=1597040548&do=diff Francisco Lupica is a spiritual musician and instrument maker based out of Venice Beach, California. He is known for the Cosmic Beam Experience, a One Man Band made out of self made instruments. Cosmic Beam Experience The Cosmic Beam Experience is a set of instruments made up of the Cosmic Beam as well as various drums, gongs, chimes and bells, all of which are played by Lupica. text/html 2021-08-18T01:07:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/fred_carlson?rev=1629248858&do=diff NOTES Offical Website Circa 2019 official website (now down) . Feature of his Guitarangi da Gamba on Oddmusic . A second feature of his Harpouditar . A third feature of his 'Jomama . A fourth of his Oracle text/html 2022-09-30T09:41:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/fungible?rev=1664530894&do=diff Fungible is the property of an instrument having various parts, or the instrument itself, easily replaceable with another that are indiscernible from the original. An example is being able to buy a commercial plastic recorder and swapping out any part (or the whole instrument) with the same model and have it function exactly the same. An important conceptual feature of this fungible property is that the original instrument and the replacements are indiscernible from one another. In some cases… text/html 2020-10-15T11:55:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ganesh_anandan?rev=1602762942&do=diff Ganesh Anandan made the ShrutiStick which is a string instrument that uses movable weighted clips to alter the way that the strings resonate, producing a metronome like effect on the strings. The ShrutiStick is featured on Oddmusic Instruments The ShrutiStick and 3 Metallophones are commonly used together for solo performances. text/html 2020-01-07T09:54:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/garry_greenwood?rev=1578390889&do=diff Garry Greenwood Garry Greenwood (born 1943 in Kent, England – 2005) was a leather artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia who made highly ornamented sculptural instruments out of leather. His Leather LightHarp was featured on Oddmusic as well as his Windform. text/html 2020-03-18T11:36:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/gasper_nali?rev=1584531397&do=diff Gasper Nali is a musician and instrument builder in Malawi. He is known for building exceptionally long and charismatic sounding Babatoni, which he useds as bass instruments to accompany his singing. Bandcamp text/html 2020-04-13T10:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/georg_wiesmann?rev=1586773843&do=diff Georg Wiesmann is a Swiss instrument maker who builds tube percussion instruments. He is a member of the ensembles Angklung-Duo (along with Thomas Steiger) and DuoDenum (along with Markus Wiesmann). His personal project is called Tubes 'n' Loops text/html 2019-10-11T08:35:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/gijs_gieskes?rev=1570782913&do=diff <https://youtu.be/hJHwhb99Bzo?t=710> <http://gieskes.nl/> text/html 2020-01-02T10:52:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/glenn_weyant?rev=1577962364&do=diff Glenn Weyant is a sound sculptor who uses found objects to make microtonal and environmental sounds. His work is often site specific and uses found elements of a location including field recordings and making objects and architecture into musical instruments. text/html 2022-01-05T08:32:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/glissonic?rev=1641371564&do=diff Glassonic is a music company based in Budapest, Hungary that build pitch fluid wind instruments. The company was founded by Dániel Váczi and Tóbias Terebessy. These instruments have a similar mechanism to the 'moe series built by Bart Hopkin. Instruments The glissonic company developed a number of slide instruments including a slide clarinet, flute, tarogato/ saxophone, various brass instruments as well as a double reed oboe like instrument. Each of these instruments uses the same text/html 2020-03-18T11:29:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/graham_dunning?rev=1584530949&do=diff Graham Dunning an artist and inventor living in London. He is the inventor of the featherphone, a chaotic lamellophone. He has also made a few other experimental instruments and builds installations that have instruments and interactive sound elements. Website text/html 2020-01-02T11:48:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/gregory_kozak?rev=1577965706&do=diff Gregory Kozak is the founder and instrument builder for the ensemble Scrap Arts Music. Scrap Arts Music official website Bio of Gregory Kozak Feature on Oddmusic text/html 2022-02-10T04:26:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/guillaume_toutain?rev=1644467217&do=diff Guillaume Toutain is a musician who builds variable pitch drums. He is the inventor of the Keytam, a melodic drum that functions similarly to a talking drum. The Keytam evolved from the Jogad'oc which he built as a variable pitch tambourine. Keytam Youtube text/html 2024-01-20T08:18:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/guthman_competition?rev=1705738680&do=diff The Margaret Guthman New Instrument Competition is a yearly competition for newly invented musical instruments. This page is a list of finalists of each years competition and their instruments 2009 Judges Eran Egozy- co-founder of Harmonix Eliot Van Buskirk- Music Reporter for Wired.com text/html 2019-10-28T12:16:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/hakan_lidbo?rev=1572265005&do=diff Official website- <https://www.hakanlidbo.com/> text/html 2020-01-07T09:07:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/hal_rammel?rev=1578388051&do=diff Hal Rammel is known for creating the Triolin, an experimental Nail Violin. His instrument has some similarities to the works of Bart Hopkin and Bill Wesley. Feature on Oddmusic Brief lecture on the nail Violin at the National Music Museum text/html 2021-09-23T13:01:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/hans_reichel?rev=1632402073&do=diff Hans Reichel (1949-2011) was an experimental musician, guitarist, inventor of the Daxophone and an experimental guitar builder. Instruments At the moment (2021) not much is known about the exact instruments that Hand Reichel built, with the exception of the text/html 2020-04-10T07:04:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/hao_ni?rev=1586502285&do=diff Notes Website Vimeo Facebook text/html 2020-02-13T06:51:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/harry_bertoia?rev=1581576716&do=diff Harry Bertoia was a designer, artist, and sound sculptor who worked mainly in metal, using large bundles of metal rods and tines that play unison pitches. His sound sculptures produce unique ambient sounds. He released multiple albums called Sonambient on vinyl throughout the 1970s-1980s. His work is continued by his son Val Bertoia who continues to make new sound sculptures inspired by the philosophy of sound art started by his father. A collection of his instruments are held at his bard worksh… text/html 2022-12-30T07:49:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/harry_partch?rev=1672386549&do=diff Harry Partch is a huge figure in experimental music and instrument invention. He was a prolific instrument maker, building instruments to play his unique style of microtonal music. He is one of the most widely known experimental musical instrument builders. text/html 2020-03-05T09:34:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/henry_dagg?rev=1583400840&do=diff Henry Dagg is a Holistic Musician known for his comical experimental instruments. He lives and works out of Faversham, Kent, England. He is a well know musical saw player. Notable instruments that he has built are his sharpsichord, Voicycle, and cat organ. He formally worked as a sound engineer for the BBC. text/html 2024-03-23T08:59:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/history_of_the_ocarina?rev=1711184396&do=diff HISTORY OF THE OCARINA Italian Style Ocarinas Giuseppe Donati is widely considered the inventor of the transverse ocarina (10 hole system) The double ocarina has multiple contenders for who may have invented the instrument- Luigi Silvestri, Emilio Cesari, and Antonio Canella text/html 2018-10-10T05:48:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/idiophones?rev=1539150523&do=diff Vibrating the body of the instrument itself generates sound 1.1 Struck idiophones (11)   1.1.1 Directly struck idiophones (111)   1.1.2 Indirectly struck idiophones (112) 1.2 Plucked idiophones (12)   1.2.1 In the form of a frame (121)   1.2.2 In the form of a comb (122) text/html 2020-04-02T10:23:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/idiosyncrasy?rev=1585823022&do=diff Idiosyncrasy For an instrument to be featured on this wiki a basic set of features that are idiosyncratic should be present. Features such as having an unusual Interface, Sound Quality, Function, Aesthetic, or instruments that have unusual implications attached to existing are taken into consideration. This page is intended to elaborate on these basic considerations. Ideally an instrument should have two or more of the below qualities to be featured on this wiki. text/html 2021-03-17T11:31:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/indiscrete?rev=1615980704&do=diff An instrument is indiscrete when it doesn't have easily definable separate parts. This can be formed in two primary ways, when the instrument has parts that blend into one another, or when it has many individual parts that combine to make a whole in a way that the relationship is difficult to define specifically. text/html 2019-11-20T09:58:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/iner_souster?rev=1574243927&do=diff Iner Souster page on oddmusic- Main website Second Website text/html 2022-09-28T08:58:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/institutions?rev=1664355525&do=diff Institutions Galleries Window Gallery San Francisco based gallery that prominently features musical instruments as works of art and frequently features newly invented musical instruments. Museums Center for New Music San Francisco based gallery and performance space. text/html 2021-05-28T02:21:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/instruments_make_play?rev=1622168502&do=diff Instruments Make Play is a collection of instrument builders. The website also hosts a yearly festival in the Netherlands. “Besides being a festival for invented instruments, Instruments Make Play wants to be an international platform for musicians, builders and artists as well. Our first aim; to collect information about anybody who ever invented an instrument and put it online, in order to grow a database of names and aural furniture. text/html 2021-09-23T12:53:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/instruments?rev=1632401625&do=diff This page is still in early development. To see a much more complete list see Makers. This list will become longer then the makers list. All the makers featured have at least one instrument to list and most have made more then one instrument that can be featured on this wiki. text/html 2019-12-24T12:21:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/isaac_zal?rev=1577190087&do=diff Creator of the Harmonic Generator. Featured on Oddmusic. Oddmusic feature text/html 2020-04-08T22:38:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/jack_pavlik?rev=1586385517&do=diff Notes Youtube Website text/html 2019-04-25T10:45:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/jeremy_bell?rev=1556189105&do=diff <http://www.jeremyseanbell.com/inventions.html> <https://www.youtube.com/user/jeremyseanbell/videos> text/html 2020-03-18T11:50:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/jeronimo_naranjo?rev=1584532235&do=diff Jerónimo García Naranjo is a Mexican composer and instrument builder. He is known for his giant musical isntruments. He is a researcher on long strings and ways to implement them in music. Youtube Instagram Instruments Huey Mecatl A giant instrument build on 10 ship containers. text/html 2019-11-05T12:08:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/jim_doble?rev=1572955690&do=diff Original site, with lots of links to interesting instruments Official website text/html 2022-04-05T04:06:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/joe_rauen?rev=1649131563&do=diff Joe Rauen is a builder of experimental musical instruments based in Munster Illinois. Many of the instruments he builds are assemblages of existing musical instrument parts and various found and household objects. His work is often thickly painted with patterns. Much of his work is presented in the context of sculpture. text/html 2020-07-14T10:04:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/johannes_bergmark?rev=1594721040&do=diff Johannes Bergmark is a musician and performance artist based in the Stockholm, Sweden. He has a distinct frenetic style and uses found materials and household items to build instruments. Many of his instruments are Indiscrete, fungible and his music is often lowercase. He pays careful attention to the tonal color of the sounds made by various materials and often his music highlights this element above playing specific recognizable melodies. text/html 2020-02-14T08:12:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/john_grayson?rev=1581667935&do=diff John Grayson has a large presence in the 1960's-1970's but there is very little direct traces of his work that can be found online today. He published at least two books- Sound Sculpture and Environments of musical sculpture you can build: Phase 1 . In these books there is a large catalog of musical instruments he invented and built as well as extensive writings on sound sculpture and his philosophy of music. text/html 2020-08-10T06:53:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/john_kovac?rev=1597042427&do=diff John Kovac is a harp builder and also an instrument tinkerer. He designs and builds instruments out of PVC. The majority of his instruments are PVC versions of existing instruments such as harps, slide whistles, ektara, and the washtub bass. He also has some more unusual instruments that have far more features of his own creation. He has authored two books about making PVC instruments, one on making harps text/html 2021-08-16T04:51:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/jon_rose?rev=1629089498&do=diff Jon Rose is an experimental violin maker. The maker made a series of instruments called Relative Violins. Instruments NOTES Main Youtube Channel- Youtube- Feature on Oddmusic- Official website- text/html 2020-01-02T11:55:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/joseph_casbarian?rev=1577966109&do=diff Joseph Casarian is known for inventing the Sequential Resonation Machine. No further information about him could be found online. Feature on Oddmusic. text/html 2026-04-27T08:44:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/journals?rev=1777279488&do=diff Journals and Magazines Experimental Musical Instruments EMI is by far the most comprehensive and important resource related to this wiki. Published by Bart Hopkin, the magazine features different instrument makers and their instruments, theory surrounding them, music they have made and even technical guides on how to build instruments. The Magazine ran from 1985-1999. text/html 2022-10-19T08:32:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/justice_yeldham?rev=1666168347&do=diff As Lucas Abela Lucas Abela is an instrument maker who focuses on making musical sculptures that are playful and interactive. He has constructed several arcade like sculptures that use sound as a major element of their engagement. Instruments Vinyl Rally text/html 2019-11-20T11:16:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/katie_grinnan?rev=1574248605&do=diff official website text/html 2023-08-31T07:02:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ken_butler?rev=1693465361&do=diff Ken Butler is a string instrument maker who make sculptural hybrid string instruments. These instruments are often made from found objects and pieces of domestic materials. Butler's Golf Club Sitar/Tabla won the 2016 Guthman Competition. Butler is the only player of the text/html 2021-12-14T14:03:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ken_lovelett?rev=1639490630&do=diff Ken Lovelett is an American Percussionist who makes percussion instruments under the name American Percussion. NOTES Youtube channel- Website- text/html 2022-10-25T12:12:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/koka_nikoladze?rev=1666699952&do=diff Koka Nikoladze is a composer and instrument makers who makes electromechanical musical instruments. He also works with found objects in what he calls audiovisual compositions that are made up of many video and sound samples cut and layered onto one another. His work is often interested in timbre and texture and he often relies on making either electromechanical or digital hocketing for his melody and harmonic progressions. text/html 2020-03-27T09:50:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/lars_dietrich?rev=1585302645&do=diff Lars Dietrich, also known as Lars Lucy 8Legion, is a sculptor who has built multiple iterations of two autonomous computers known as Lucy and 8Legion that perform music along with musicians. Lucy and 8legion appear as a disembodied woman (and man) on a television screens inter-meshed with various musical implements and synthesizers that each of them use to interact with other performers. There are multiple iterations of Lucy, each generally advancing in complexity and have increasingly sophistic… text/html 2021-11-02T14:59:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/laurie_anderson?rev=1635865186&do=diff Laurie Anderson is a musical instrument maker, sculptor, and musician working out of Los Angeles, California. Instruments Self Playing Violin The Self Playing Violin is a violin that has been modified to have a speaker inside. The goal of the instrument was to make a violin able to play duets with itself. This instrument is often paired with a pair of ice skates in works called Duets on Ice where the ice skates were frozen into a block of ice that was allowed to melt marking the end of the … text/html 2020-04-03T11:13:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/lee_mc_donald?rev=1585912410&do=diff Lee Mc Donald is a British artist who lives and works in the Netherlands. He makes sound sculptures that are experimental interactions between objects and materials. He makes Electromechanical instruments that mostly play themselves with little influence from the player. His instruments can be considered text/html 2020-01-02T12:16:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/leland_w._sprinkle?rev=1577967386&do=diff Leland W. Sprinkle was the creator of the Great Stalacpipe Organ, a site specific organ that plays the stalactites at the Luray Caverns. Sprinkle lived and worked as mathematician and electronic scientist at the Pentagon. He is only known to have built this one instrument. text/html 2023-04-01T08:55:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/leo_maurel?rev=1680339345&do=diff Léo Maurel is a maker of instruments that are built to produce sustained drones. This includes a number of experimental hurdy gurdys, as well as compressed air controlled flutes, and some continuous bowing devices. Built instruments for Tarek Atoui. NOTES text/html 2020-07-09T12:48:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/leonard_solomon?rev=1594298887&do=diff Leonard Solomon is a novelty instrument builder. INSTRUMENTS Bellowphone Callioforte bottle organs Gahoon Dogfood Can Organ Oomphalapompatronium NOTES Youtube note the beryllium copper reed and the keyboard design in the documentary video. text/html 2019-10-25T08:26:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/les_fo_plafonds?rev=1571992007&do=diff Les Fo'plafonds is a 7 member percussion ensemble who build unique instruments and perform characteristic sounding covers of pop songs. The ensemble uses everyday objects such as cans, bottles, fans, cooking supplies, plywood, and simple electronics to build their instruments. There is a strong factor of using the everyday, as well as recycled objects in their instrument making. The group produces theatrical music videos as well as theatrical on stage performances of their music. This involves c… text/html 2020-01-02T11:25:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/linda_manzer?rev=1577964332&do=diff Linda Manzer is a master luthier and guitar maker. She is known for making the Picasso Guitar. Feature on Oddmusic Second feature text/html 2020-04-12T12:10:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/linsey_pollak?rev=1586693446&do=diff Also known as Squealy D, Linsey Pollak is an Australian instrument builder who focuses on making wacky woodwind instruments. Examples include clarinets from hoses and carrots, and a number of cylindrical saxophones. Many of the woodwinds are hooked up to amplification and fed through pedals. part of his practice is to find ways to reverse engineer and simplify the construction process of existing instruments. He often works with readily available household materials. His website features openl… text/html 2019-10-31T05:07:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/luck_dragons?rev=1572498462&do=diff Created by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck Luck Dragons is a collaboration project that makes intermedia projects involving sound and visual art. Official website- text/html 2019-10-31T05:12:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/lucky_dragons?rev=1572498744&do=diff Created by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck Luck Dragons is a collaboration project that makes intermedia projects involving sound and visual art. Official website- Sarah Rara's website Luke Fischbeck's Website “Artist, composer, and organizer. Designs and tests structures for access and dissent. Contributing member of the group lucky dragons (with Sarah Rara), co-founder and principal organizer of Sumi Ink Club (a platform for collaborative art) and KCHUNG Radio (a cooperative broadcast pr… text/html 2026-05-19T02:18:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/makers?rev=1779157110&do=diff This is a list of instrument builders, inventors, and performers. This list features inventors working from after 1900 till now. For a maker to be featured they must have made at least 2 qualifying instruments see Idiosyncrasy, for makers with tremendous potential who do not yet fully qualify see text/html 2024-01-24T01:54:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/making_pickups?rev=1706061249&do=diff MAKING PICKUPS Passive Pickups High Impedance Magnetic Pickups Use wire wrapped around a permanent magnet to generate an electrical field in response to the vibration of a metal string. Magnetic pickups have a number of factors that effect the quality of sound generated by them. text/html 2019-10-04T21:36:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/marco_antonio_guimaraes?rev=1570224990&do=diff Marco Antônio Guimarães is a Brazillian musician and instrument builder for the group Uakti. Link to his facebook page- <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010422428675> An article in Portuguese on the instruments of Uakti- <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-75992011000100018> A guide to building an Uakti style glass marimba- <https://marimblog.wordpress.com/marimba-de-vidro/projeto-de-construcao/> text/html 2020-04-08T11:58:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/marginal_consort?rev=1586347117&do=diff The Marginal Consort is a Japanese experimental ensemble comprised of Kazuo Imai (今井和雄), Yasushi Ozawa (小沢靖), Tomonao Koshikawa　(越川知尚), Kei Shii (椎啓), and Masami Tada (多田正美). The ensemble meets and performs once a year since 1997. They don't rehearse or talk in between these annual concerts. The members of Marginal Consort met in art school in 1970's Japan. They create elaborate instrumental systems from household items and hardware-store materials. text/html 2020-08-12T08:17:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/mark_allan_barnes?rev=1597220251&do=diff Mark Allen Barnes is a British composer and instrument maker who works under the name Oceania Stegosaurusia Tardigradia. Barnes is known for his experimental microtonal string instruments. Instruments Ocean Tardigrade has built multiple unusual string instruments as well as a few unusual wind instruments. The instruments themselves are mostly made of wood and have a home made esthetic to them, often featuring elements of hardware store materials. Tartigrade's style of musical performance ofte… text/html 2020-04-08T23:28:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/mark_applebaum?rev=1586388507&do=diff Mark Applebaum is a visual artist, musician, and composer who has several unusual instruments he has built. He is known for his satirical, comedic, and subversive compositions. The creation of whacky musical instruments is only a small facet of his artistic work. He puts text/html 2019-11-15T13:38:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/mark_deutsch?rev=1573825082&do=diff Featured on oddmusic- . official website- bandcamp text/html 2020-04-09T01:07:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/martin_molin?rev=1586394464&do=diff Martin Molin is the instrument builder behind the instruments of Wintergaten. The group is famous for the Marble Machine and the ongoing project of building the Marble Machine X. Instruments The instruments Molin makes are largely Iterative and Indiscrete. The Marble Machine, and Marble Machine X are mostly text/html 2020-03-10T03:23:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/matt_butt?rev=1583810588&do=diff official website facebook profile text/html 2021-09-16T10:49:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/max_vandervorst?rev=1631789398&do=diff Max Vandervorst is an instrument builder based out of Dinant, Belgium. He has constructed a Trash Orchestra with a heavy focus on water bottles. Instruments Notes Website, Note all the books he has published on making musical instruments! Youtube channel text/html 2018-07-20T01:11:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/membranophones?rev=1532049091&do=diff Vibrating a membrane creates sound. 1.1 Struck membranophones (21) 1.1.1 Directly struck membranophones (211) 1.1.2 Shaken membranophones (212) 1.2 Plucked membranophones (22) 1.3 Friction membranophones (23) 1.3.1 Friction drums with stick (231) 1.3.2 Friction drum with cord (232) 1.3.3 Hand friction drums (233) 1.4 Singing membranes (kazoos) (24) 1.4.1 Free kazoos (241) 1.4.2 Tube or vessel kazoos (242) 1.5 Unclassified membranophones (25) text/html 2019-11-26T12:25:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/michael_natale?rev=1574771106&do=diff Michael Natale is an Experimental gamelan maker who built the Gametones ensemble. He goes by the pseudonym Whybread. Was featured indirectly on Oddmusic. here is the nearly defunct gametones website here is a page with 3 of the gametones instruments as virtual instruments There is very little information online about this project. text/html 2020-08-13T06:18:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/michel_waisvisz?rev=1597299499&do=diff Michel Waisvisz was director of STEIM and was a musician and builder of experimental electronic musical instruments. He had collaborated with Tarek Atoui. Instruments Crackle Chain Tape Puller 1970, an instrument to play seated, pulling a tape with both feet over the tapehead, thus using the recording medium in a performative manner. text/html 2020-02-03T06:31:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/michele_spanghero?rev=1580711474&do=diff Website Offical youtube text/html 2020-10-13T12:03:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/mike_barclay?rev=1602590607&do=diff Mike Barclay is a French instrument maker who makes instruments out of electromechanical tuning forks that are activated by electromagnets and allowed to sustain in eerie tones. He accompanies these with synthesizers that operate off of light sensors that generate the timbre of their tone from the rapid movement of lights on wheels. text/html 2025-09-18T16:43:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/music_wire?rev=1758213805&do=diff MUSIC WIRE GAUGE CHART Here is where I summarize all of the wires I have Precision Brand Music wire AMOUNT lbs NO in/mm AWG 10/0 .0015/.0381 46 9/0 .0020/.0508 44 8/0 .0025/.0635 42 7/0 .003/.0762 40 6/0 .004/.101 text/html 2021-07-08T08:28:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/neil_feather?rev=1625732895&do=diff “Sound Mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments since 1970 and is increasingly known as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original, embodying new principles and resulting in a nearly alien idiom of music. text/html 2019-12-12T23:28:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/nicolas_bras?rev=1576193284&do=diff Nocolas Bras is a acoustinc instrument maker as well as a prolific blogger about unusual instruments. He runs a blog called Rare and Strange Instruments. <http://rareandstrangeinstruments.com/> Here is a TEDx talk by Nicolas Bras describing the use of tin cans in instrument making. text/html 2024-02-25T22:07:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ocarina_characteristics?rev=1708898842&do=diff Parameters that effect the sound characteristics of an ocarina This is as complete as possible of a list of factors that effect the way an ocarina sounds. Ocarinas are frequently modeled in a very simplified manner that does not get at how many of text/html 2024-01-24T01:43:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ocarina_commission?rev=1706060592&do=diff Forming A Commission To Set Standards for the Ocarina Starting in 2021 I have had discussions between me and several other makers on the TON (The Ocarina Network) forums, three different ocarina groups on Facebook (TON, Ocarina Makers, and Global Ocarina Community) which have led me to want to form a commission to set standards for the ocarina. In the current state of affairs there is a great deal about the ocarina that is inconsistent. There are few standards that are maintained in the written… text/html 2024-01-24T01:50:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ocarina?rev=1706061052&do=diff Innovations on the Ocarina Here are some unusual innovations on the ocarina. This page features many ocarinas that brake from the familiar form of the instrument in various ways. Size The ocarina is easily the smallest wind instrument in the world. It also has the potential to be the largest. text/html 2019-12-04T11:52:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/oddmusic?rev=1575460355&do=diff Oddmusic is an early internet website made by John Pascuzzi dedicated to odd musical instruments. John also is the founder of the similar and even earlier website Oddstruments. Oddmusic has remained largely unedited since 2008. The website features lists of unusual musical instruments and brief articles about them. This website represents the organization and known makers of unusual instruments on the early internet. This website aslso has many cross connections with text/html 2024-01-24T01:54:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/oil?rev=1706061280&do=diff OILING WIND INSTRUMENTS Philosophy The idea wood should be oiled on a wind instrument might seem unusual at first but it is rooted in the understanding that wood changes size depending on many forces. Temperature, and moisture are the two most pronounced ways wood changes in size. Moisture offers the threat of cracking wooden wind instruments far more then temperature does (and the opposite is true for string instruments). The idea of oiling wood then comes down to the ability to block moistur… text/html 2020-01-07T09:18:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/oliver_dicicco?rev=1578388698&do=diff Official website Note the sound sculpture videos feature of his Due Capi on Oddmusic . Feature of his Trylon on Oddmusic text/html 2019-12-04T11:45:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/panart?rev=1575459922&do=diff Founded by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer, PANArt makes a number of steel drum like instruments. The company is famous for the Hang Drum. PANArt website Feature on Oddmusic text/html 2019-09-10T01:13:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/paper_organ?rev=1568078035&do=diff The idea of making an organ out of paper is an unusual one, the pipe organ itself is an impressive piece of technology, one with masses of moving parts and generally requires very fine adjustment and tuning to function at all. Creating a functioning miniature paper craft version is interesting because it is an art form where precision is difficult especially in the sense of material behavior, paper can easily warp and give to even minor pressure. Paper is also acoustically a fairly absorbent and… text/html 2020-04-06T14:03:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/paul_dresher?rev=1586181806&do=diff Paul Dresher is an experimental Luthier who works out of Oakland, California. He is the instrument builder for the Paul Dresher Ensemble. He frequently collaborates with Daniel Schmidt to build and design instruments. Instruments Sound Maze Sound Stage The Peacock Field of Flowers text/html 2019-12-31T11:59:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/paul_rubenstein?rev=1577793560&do=diff Paul Rubenstein builds unusual string instruments that take advantage of Xenharmonic scales. He is a prominent musical instrument building educator. Instrument gallery text/html 2020-05-20T12:21:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/peter_whitehead?rev=1589977274&do=diff Peter Whitehead builds a wide variety of instruments from scavenged materials. He primarily makes string instruments. Feature in EMI Peter Whitehead is a frequent writer for EMI VOLUME 7 #2, SEPTEMBER 1991 “Cans and Springs and Bars and Plates and Wheels” by Peter Whitehead. 2 pages; 5 photos, 1 diagram. text/html 2021-05-20T13:03:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/petr_valek?rev=1621515817&do=diff known as The VAPE, Petr Válek is an experimental musical sculpture maker who focuses on cacophonous noise sculptures. The sculptures mainly use household objects, junk, and various hardware materials along with motors to create semi autonomous sculptures. He also makes small noise synthesizers makes noise music on various industrial machines. text/html 2019-11-26T12:35:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/philip_dadson?rev=1574771707&do=diff Phil Dadson is the instrument builder for the Auckland experimental percussion group From Scratch. . He was a member of the experimental music ensemble at Morley College, London called Scratch Orchestra. He was featured on Oddmusic . He coauthored the book Slap Tubes and other Plosive Aerophones with text/html 2024-01-24T01:50:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/piano?rev=1706061017&do=diff Innovations on the Piano Innovations on the Range and Timbre of the Piano The Alexander Piano Adrian Alexander Mann created a piano with bass strings that are unwound and are at full linear length relative to the pitch they produce. M450 David Klavins and his company Klavins Piano have created a model called the M450, which is a vertical piano that uses the function of gravity and the elongated string length to create a piano with enhanced and rich harmonics. Similar to the Alexander … text/html 2020-09-22T09:22:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/powsolo?rev=1600766546&do=diff The Powsolo awards are part of the Powland Network which also includes Powcademy and Coleccion SOLO and is based in Espacio SOLO museum in Madrid Spain. The Powsolo awards are a set of awards given for sound sculptures. Competition The competition is held online through video submissions that are submitted the prior year. The event is a digital competition with no physical awards ceremony. text/html 2024-09-17T09:26:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/principles?rev=1726565219&do=diff List Of Acoustic Principles Here is a list of pages that describe some musical principles that are important to making unusual instruments. This page will feature short articles describing these principles and the ways that each of these principles has a tendency to be pronounced in text/html 2019-03-06T06:51:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/recorder?rev=1551855082&do=diff This topic has been covered in great detail on the Recorder Home Page. <http://www.recorderhomepage.net/history/innovations-in-recorder-design/> text/html 2023-08-08T11:55:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/reed_ghazala?rev=1691495751&do=diff Reed Ghazala is a well known instrument maker and performer who alters electronic devises to produce chaotic and glitch noise. He is an early pioneer and inventor of circuit bending. He uses many elements of chance operation in his music. NOTES Website Ghazala frequently posts information about his instruments on his facebook page text/html 2024-01-24T01:45:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/reed_species?rev=1706060720&do=diff Plant Species used to make Reeds Common woodwind species Arundo donax- by far the most commonly used plant to make reeds experimental species/ plausible species Ephedra species Equisetum species NOTES woodwinds making essay all text/html 2024-03-06T17:37:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/reeds?rev=1709746633&do=diff What Exactly is a Reed? There is a lot of contention (that I created no doubt) on making a clear definition of a reed. Past definitions are far too ambiguous in my opinion and a rehashing of the definition and classification of reeds in is order. in text/html 2020-02-13T07:36:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/reinhold_marxhausen?rev=1581579371&do=diff “Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen, a man in his fifties who serves as chairman of the art department at Concordia Teachers’ College in Seward Nebraska. Most of the Marxhausen’s sculptures are small metallic objects studded with spines or prongs in various arrangements. The objects have foreboding appearance, but they no doubt yield extraordinary sounds when held to the ear and plucked, as the sculptor intends. In a less formal outdoor vein, Marxhausen also likes to tune picket fences, to be played by … text/html 2021-03-24T04:24:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/richard_bobo?rev=1616559843&do=diff Instruments Sopranino Crumhorn Bohlen-Pierce Crumhorn GigaRackett Subcontrabassoon Subcontrabassoon Project The Subcontrabassoon project is a community oriented project run by Richard Bobo through his Youtube channel. Because of the high level of technical skill required to build a subcontrabassoon with the same level of mechanical features as a bassoon or contrabassoon, a community project was launched enabling many different people to come together to give advice on how to design and con… text/html 2019-11-21T03:48:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/richard_cooke?rev=1574308125&do=diff Official website Featured on Oddmusic text/html 2020-01-07T09:51:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/richard_waters?rev=1578390704&do=diff Richard Waters is the well known inventor of the Waterphone. Official website Feature of his Trongos on Oddmusic Feature of his Waterphone text/html 2020-08-11T11:46:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/robert_rutman?rev=1597146413&do=diff Bob Rutman is an early Steel Resonator instrument maker and builder of “American Industrial folk instruments”. He is known for inventing the Steel Cello in the 1960's, and building metal instruments along with his collaborator Constance Demby. He opened an experimental art gallery in New York called text/html 2020-09-16T01:21:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/roberto_velazquez_cabrera?rev=1600219265&do=diff Roberto Valazquez Cabrera is a profoundly interesting person to feature on this wiki. He is a Mexican researcher based in Mexico City who reconstructs precolombian musical instruments based off archeological evidence. He also has formed theories about the ways the instruments were constructed and played, that are supported by multifaceted forms of evidence. He has conducted some of the most sophisticated research into instruments that produce text/html 2019-11-20T11:11:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/robin_armstrong?rev=1574248272&do=diff oddmusic page text/html 2021-05-28T02:21:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sam_battle?rev=1622168460&do=diff Sam Battle, also known as Look Mum No Computer, is a musical machine builder, youtuber, and musician. He is known for his overflowing personality and witty banter. He documents his musical instrument inventions on youtube with a wide audience. He is primarily known for building various analog synthesizers and has also made several notable instruments using unique and comical materials and effects. text/html 2022-06-09T23:11:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/scott_f._hall?rev=1654816298&do=diff Scott F. hall is an experimental luthier based out of Florida that makes and plays on variations on common sting instruments and brass instruments. Hall has a pronounced presence on Facebook and is an active member of many instrument building Facebook pages such as text/html 2021-03-17T12:04:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/self_contained?rev=1615982691&do=diff A self contained instrument is one that plays on its own, is not directly interacted with, and is not controlled directly by a player or the audience. These instruments are often Sound sculptures and very rarely play along with other instruments. Often the sounds produced by these instruments are continuous without brakes, text/html 2019-12-31T12:42:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sharon_rowell?rev=1577796132&do=diff Sharon Rowell is the inventor of the Huaca, a multichamber ocarina. She is an early contributor to EMI Magazine. Rowell is a highly influential person in the ocarina community and fundamental in the development of experimental ocarinas. Feature on Oddmusic Page about the text/html 2024-07-03T03:33:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/shawm?rev=1719977615&do=diff Innovations on the Shawm Family The main focus on this article is the development of chromatic keywork on shawms as well as development of a choir like family of each of the instruments. These innovations tend to come in tandem with one another and have been developments over the last 100 years. A lot of the instruments discussed here have analogs with the Bassoon and Oboe. The begs an interesting question of what exactly is the score of a shawm. text/html 2020-08-31T22:08:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sherko_abbas?rev=1598911719&do=diff Notes Vimeo website text/html 2024-07-02T22:11:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sidebar?rev=1719958274&do=diff Mainpage Rules Lists- Essays Makers Ensembles Sound Making Principles Instruments Resources- Books Journals -EMI Magazine Websites Institutions Events -Guthman Competition Resources text/html 2020-10-23T19:27:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/simon_the_magpie?rev=1603481248&do=diff Simon the Magpie is an experimental tinkerer who alters existing musical instruments to make original sound qualities. Many of his instruments, especially his early ones utilize electronic devices and toys using circuit bending. He often does this as an experiment to see what will happen. He has garnered a large youtube audience enthusiastic about his experiments, which are often humorous and absurd. text/html 2021-09-28T12:14:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/simonas_nekrosius?rev=1632831264&do=diff Simonas Nekrošius Is a sound sculptor based out of Lithuania. He primarily makes string instruments that are interacted with in unusual ways using the human body. He gained sudden popularity online with his sculpture The Chair for Quarantine. NOTES text/html 2019-10-25T11:39:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sonambule?rev=1572003549&do=diff Made up of Vincent Martial and Max Hoton this group creates unusual musical instruments. They created the Organ Koto for Tarek Atoui. The instruments built by the duo are often complex and use many acoustic and electronic parts. official website- <http://www.sonambule.net/index.php> text/html 2020-10-02T08:24:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sonia_paco-rocchia?rev=1601627053&do=diff Sonia Paço-Rocchia is a composer, interactive sound installation artist, bassoon free-improviser, instrument maker, live electronics musician, live coder, Max/MSP, Max for Live, Arduino/Teensy, HTML/JavaScript/Web Audio/CSS/PHP coder, interface maker. text/html 2023-03-26T11:23:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/stan_wood?rev=1679829837&do=diff Stan Wood was the inventor of the Vibraband. Ken Butler is the only Vibraband player to have learned from Stan himself before his death. The instrument was an online following of people learning how to recreate the instrument and learn how to play it. Wood's relation to the Balloon Bass is unknown, he may be a co-inventor of the instrument. text/html 2018-07-19T19:11:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/start?rev=1532027471&do=diff **WELCOME!** This is the Experimental Musical instrument wiki. This wiki is being created to host documentation about various musical instruments that are built with the intention of being experimental in nature according to the musical environment from which they are made. The notion that they are attempting something that is unknown is important for this distinction. This wiki will attempt to document and find connections between various instruments, their makers, and the existing cultural i… text/html 2020-08-13T05:49:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/steim?rev=1597297753&do=diff STEIM is the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A number of instrument makers featured on this wiki had direct involvement with STEIM. Michel Waisvisz was a director and Tarek Atoui was an artistic director. Notes Official Website text/html 2019-04-30T01:38:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/steven_jobe?rev=1556588285&do=diff <http://www.stevenjobe.com/instruments> text/html 2023-02-10T05:33:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/subhraag_singh?rev=1676007190&do=diff Subhraag Singh is the inventor of the Infinitone and winner of the 2017 Guthman competition. Instruments Infinitone The infinitone is a computer controlled microtonal soprano saxophone. It operates similarly to a slide saxophone in that it can play both a pitch continuum and pitch fluid but it uses a set of stepper motor controlled openings that overlap to allow the full range to be played. The openings are controllable up to 256 notes per octave (256EDO) with a range of 2 octaves (512 tone… text/html 2020-04-10T09:31:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/sung_kim?rev=1586511079&do=diff Sung Kim is an experimental luthier based in Richmond, California. He is a prolific builder of unusual and complex string instruments. Instruments Notes Website Instagram (the main place to find his instruments) Facebook Business Facebook (defunct) text/html 2020-09-16T09:12:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/susan_rawcliffe?rev=1600247549&do=diff Susan Rawcliffe is an experimental flute maker who works exclusively with ceramics to make her instruments. She is based out of the Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, California. She was a frequent contributor to EMI magazine and a collaborates with text/html 2022-11-29T07:03:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/tarek_atoui?rev=1669705400&do=diff Tarek Atoui is a sculptor and musician who builds musical instruments that act as sculptures. The majority of instruments fiction as an installation that is also a kind of ensemble. He was the artistic directer at STEIM in Amsterdam Instruments “Un-drum” Series (2009, 2011) text/html 2020-04-13T11:32:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/terry_dame?rev=1586777542&do=diff Terry Dame is a multi instrumentalist musician and instrument maker based out of New York. She is the instrument maker for the Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Electric Junkyard Gamelan The Electric Junkyard Gamelan is a four person ensemble that performs Balinese Gamelan inspired music. It can loosely be considered an text/html 2024-10-28T19:09:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/the_furry_voice?rev=1730142552&do=diff THE FURRY VOICE voice_studies Uwu what's that? The intersection of horny and cringe. the voice that is the intersection of gay and autistic what is the furry fandom, (write an explanation for Nina) personal notes Make a list of furry musicians, discuss the 3 classes of furry music- text/html 2019-10-25T11:28:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/thierry_madiot?rev=1572002885&do=diff Built instruments for Tarek Atoui. Creates instruments that can generate 'sound massages'. Official Vimeo- <https://vimeo.com/user6058071> Official website- <http://madiot.free.fr/> text/html 2019-03-20T03:20:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/thongophone?rev=1553052014&do=diff The Thongophone also known as a Tubulum and Slapophone, is a long pipe drum often made from segments of PVC tubing of different length arranged like a keyboard. This instrument is popularized by both Uakti and The Blue Man Group. It is played by smacking shut the tops of the tubes using a piece of rubber like material such as a sandal (thong) hence the name of the instrument. text/html 2020-01-07T09:25:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/tim_hawkinson?rev=1578389149&do=diff Tim Hawkinson is an interesting figure to feature here. He Is known for building only one instrument and that is the Überorgan. The Überorgan is a sculpture he built that functions like a roll operated piano and plays music on a bagpipe like instrument. The scale of the instrument is enormous, separating out many of its sound making components across separate rooms and architectural spaces. The instrument is mostly built out of plastic sheeting that has been inflated like a large balloon. The in… text/html 2019-11-05T11:39:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/tom_kaufmann?rev=1572953974&do=diff Tom Kaufmann is a Maker of musical instrument public art sculptures sold under the Tinkertune name. Tinkertune website text/html 2019-03-20T07:02:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/tom_sturm?rev=1553065377&do=diff Tom Strum Tom is an instrument builder that focuses on creating instruments that extend the body, influenced by posthuman and science fiction themes. Their instruments often brake the established rules of instrument construction and performance. Synthesizers text/html 2019-06-10T06:35:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/tristan_perich?rev=1560148528&do=diff <http://www.tristanperich.com/> text/html 2024-08-30T18:04:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ucla_summer?rev=1725041043&do=diff 2024 UCLA COMPETITIVE EDGE RESEARCH NOTES August 5th - September 13th Fall term starts- Monday, September 23rd Interview with Joy Needs to be Discussed Allocation of space for my practice Is it possible to have a studio or an office space to work in? Is it possible to do some of my student teaching in the art department? text/html 2020-04-08T22:08:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/ujino_muneteru?rev=1586383739&do=diff Ujino Muneteru is a Tokyo based artist who makes large sound installations using a mixture of deconstructed musical instrument parts as well found objects. Especially common are domestic appliances, which are used to generate their familiar soundscapes. These installations use electromechanical means to play complex soundscapes that are strongly informed by the urban soundscapes the artist is inspired by. His work is often cluttered and disorganized in ways that resemble the overwhelming object-… text/html 2023-01-05T13:56:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/undertone_series?rev=1672926973&do=diff The Undertone series, also commonly called the subharmonic series is a series of pitches with mathematical relationships to one another that are a naturally occurring sequence the can be represented by divisions or multiplications of equal measured parts. The series is an inversion of the overtone series, which can be described through equal divisions of string length, the undertone series can be described by equal additions of string length. text/html 2018-07-20T01:38:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/unidentifiable?rev=1532050729&do=diff This page is for instruments that cannot be identified or categorized by the existing Hornbostel-Sachs identification system. text/html 2024-06-15T02:30:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/variable_pitch_drums?rev=1718418629&do=diff VARIABLE PITCH DRUMS There are 3 main ways that drums are able to shift in pitch- Increase or decrease tension on the drum head Increase or decrease the length of the drum body placement of weights, divisions, or pinch points to create nodes on the drums membrane text/html 2023-01-11T09:15:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/vibration?rev=1673428546&do=diff When an object vibrates due to a generating force there are a number of ways that the motion of the vibration can pass through the material. Here is a list of the various ways a material can vibrate. This page is eventually planned to have visual examples of the ways the vibrations propagate through the materials as well as breakdowns to the relevant modes. text/html 2020-01-28T23:50:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/victor_gama?rev=1580255426&do=diff Victor Gama is an acoustic instrument maker based in the Netherlands. He often makes instrument intended to be played solo on stage as accompaniment to video. His work often has themes of cultural exchange and environmentalism. He runs an instrument design company called Instrmnts text/html 2020-04-08T12:09:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/viktor_lois?rev=1586347749&do=diff Viktor Lois is a Hungarian Instrument inventor and builder who now works in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the instrument builder for the experimental music ensemble Tundravoice. Instruments Music Alter Small instruments Giant Instruments NOTES Tundravoice website text/html 2022-11-30T07:53:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/walter_smetak?rev=1669794795&do=diff Walter Smetak 1913-1984 Instruments Plasticas Sonoras “Smetak combined Afro-Brazilian ritual traditions, theosophy, microtonality studies, collective improvisation and the use of unconventional musical instruments, which he called Plasticas Sonoras. Smetak came to build around 150 acoustic instruments, many of which are true sound sculptures of great visual impact. text/html 2020-01-02T11:27:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/wayland_harman?rev=1577964428&do=diff Maker of the Reeded MouthBow and an instrument called the Clackamore. official website , Feature on Oddmusic Second Feature text/html 2022-09-13T08:03:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/websites?rev=1663056223&do=diff Websites Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments “Since the taxonomical work of Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs in the early twentieth century, organologists have classified musical instruments into four major categories, each distinguished by its primary sound-producing mechanism: idiophones (vibrating body), membranophones (vibrating membrane), chordophones (vibrating strings) and aerophones (vibrating air columns). Beyond these basic divisions, scholars have proposed such logical… text/html 2024-07-02T10:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/welcome?rev=1719915695&do=diff WELCOME! This is the Experimental Musical Instrument wiki. This wiki was created to host documentation about musical instruments that were built with the intention of being experimental instruments in the context of the musical environments they come from. The notion that they are attempting something that is unknown is important for this distinction. This wiki will attempt to document and find connections between various instruments, their makers, and the existing cultural instruments that in… text/html 2020-01-07T08:53:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/william_close?rev=1578387233&do=diff William Close makes variations on the Long-String Instrument that he calls Earth Harps. These instruments engage architecture as well as naturalistic spaces where they are installed. He is famous for building the Symphonic House, a house where the architecture is an instrument and used as a resonating chamber for long-strings that are installed throughout the house. text/html 2019-11-05T12:15:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/xavi_lozano?rev=1572956156&do=diff Instrument maker for the show Atrapasons. Official Youtube for Atrapasons(abaondoned for the link below) New Official Youtube for Atrapasons- Personal Youtube Website- text/html 2022-11-22T06:24:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/xavier_lozano_palay?rev=1669098255&do=diff Xavier Lozano Palay is a woodwind builder who makes simple woodwinds out of unexpected materials. His video of him playing a metal sidewalk barrier went viral in 2015. Notes TED talk 1 Article TED talk 2 (in Spanish) text/html 2026-04-27T08:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/xenharmonicon?rev=1777280101&do=diff XENHARMONIKON The Xenharmonikon is a journal with a focus of experimental music and microtonal music. The magazine is published by Bill Alves and John H. Chalmers along with a curatorial board. A digital scan of issues 1-18 (1974-1998) can be found here, note that issue 11 is missing. text/html 2020-01-02T10:36:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/yuichi_onoue?rev=1577961416&do=diff Yuichi Onoue (尾上祐一) is a self taught musical instrument maker who works with string instruments as well as electromagnetic ribbons. He is well known for the creation of the Kaisatsuko (回擦胡). Official Youtube channel Feature on Oddmusic text/html 2021-05-26T13:29:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/yuri_landman?rev=1622035778&do=diff Yuri Landman is a prolific luthier who makes experimental guitars. He is known for the use of 3rd Bridge techniques as well as the instrument the Mood Swinger. “Yuri Landman (1973) is a musician and an inventor of musical instruments. Based on prepared guitar techniques, he built his first instrument in 2001 to solve the inaccuracy of instant preparations. He has build experimental for acts such as Sonic Youth, dEUS, Melt-Banana, Rhys Chatham, Ex-Easter Island Head, Half Japanese, Kaki King. … text/html 2020-08-17T11:59:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/zach_balousek?rev=1597665556&do=diff Zach Balousek is a Chicago based artist who makes large ceramic vessel sculptures that make sound when rocked or moved. Instruments Singing vessels Helix Brief interview and introduction to the instrument (no sounds of it being played though) text/html 2021-03-17T11:46:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://emi.wesleyhicks.art/zimoun?rev=1615981560&do=diff Simon Hügli, known as under the name Zimoun is a sound installation artist who makes cacophonous drones out of many copies of self playing agitation instruments. The majority of his instruments use stepper motors to move various materials around, and are presented in mass to produce specific white noise effects.