METAPHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF
A Sonic Playground performance with dance
Friday, February 13, 20, 2004
Southern Theater Lobby, Minneapolis
Performers included: Philip Blackburn, Mary Disney, Jolee Mosher, Ani Mosher Pham, Heather Barringer, Peter O'Gorman, and many more.
Philip plays the 20' bar koto (welding wire stretched across an antique bar with bamboo bridge) |
Members of Deborah Jinza Thayer's Movement Architecture go over the top |
Bucketphone: 30' of wire and spring make a large vertical string telephone playable down below but hearable up top. Gong mobile completes the ensemble. |
Philip plays the gong mobile with Mary Disney on shaved gong and drumtrash. |
Doorkoto 1 can be plucked in the style of dan bau harmonics |
Mary bowing Doorkoto 2 |
Young master Barringer plays the gourdtwirler to the admiration of Ani Mosher Pham. A rosined gourd encircled with wire transfers oscillations to a rotating can/amplifier. |
The recycling can and drum have had their resonant frequencies analysed and a special electronically generated composition piped into them from a CD player causing bizarre humming phenomena. |
Not shown: rubber band twirlers, bull roarers, ratchets, rotating chirpers (brass and bamboo), aluminum beat gongs.
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