Did you get a copy of “Yuxo” yet?

Here’s another amazing and somewhat old one: Google “Telharmonium”. It was basically a precursor to the Hammond organ, but being pre-vacuum tube, it’s tonewheels had to be large enough to drive all the phones in a city at once! A real steampunk monstrosity.

Thanks Tom.

Well I’m back in Santa Fe and I must say that the vegetable instrument workshop was a huge success! The American Visionary Art Museum gathered a bunch of us music folks together for an amazing day of junk instrument building, noise parties, instrument petting zoos, vegetable instruments, and discussions about music and the brain. What an incredible experience…

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The Tenori-on is a refreshingly innovative tool of musical personality. The Tenori-on, with its double-sided white LED grid and its sleek aluminum frame, is a stylish way of creating and presenting music. Media artist Toshio Iwai designed the instrument originally as a work of art which Yamaha is now manufacturing and selling as a “visible music” interface, a new medium of 21st century musical composition which will undoubtedly become popular with Djs and electronic artists.

For someone who has no audio tech or circuit bending experience, my time with the Tenori-on was more casual and frivolous than technical oriented. I was able to play with the Tenori-on for three weeks and this is what I discovered.
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Steve Hubback, a metalworker and sculptor out of Surrey, England, is the creator of these magnificent gongs and garden instruments. I especially like the hanging mobiles and huge, 1 meter gong in the pictures below.

The hubgong website has audio recordings and a very strange video which you should watch (7.8mb WMV). Thank you Greg for pointing these out!

Daito Manabe is a programmer, artist, and designer who obviously isn’t afraid to experiment. From Daito’s website, “Yes. It is painful. but not as much as you think.”

Daito Manabe via Uncertain Times