The random interaction between an upside down steel pan, three ping pong balls and a desk fan combined with the effects of rust and decay on half the insides of a piano and two cymbals played by a set of small motors.
Randomly activated clusters of organ pipes.
An induction microphone amplifies the sound of the capacitor in a camera flash as it charges and discharges. The rotating steel drum in the middle moves the balloons and triggers a microswitch which sets off the flash unit. The sound is transmitted through an amplifier and speaker onto the pen. The drum rotates the manuscript paper. The device writes its own score as it plays.
The legs of these stacked tables have been cut, hammered and welded to create organ pipes. Air is blown down the pipes from a fan inside the table tops. Each of the twelve cut legs plays a different note of the chromatic scale.
Two sixths of a piano with resonators attached with the insides of another whole piano, a steel sheet, three cymbals and a bicycle wheel.
A recording of these devices was used as the sound for this sound painting for projector and speakers. The video was derived from a fireworks display.
An electric motor drives a bicycle wheel which raises and drops a large hammer which in turn vibrates a steel sheet. The piece may be a version of La Monte Young's composition X (any integer - in this case 41) for Henry Flynt from 1961 which consists of an instruction for a performer to repeat a loud, heavy sound every one to two seconds as uniformly and as regularly as possible for a long period of time.
The three instruments pictured being played at a festival of futurist noise music.
For sound sculpture and orchestra - with musicians from Oxford Improvisors and film by John Grieve, Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray.
Breathing Pipes (out of phase) - combines the work for thirty pipes (lower picture) with the work for small organ pipes (pictured above).
"Groan tubes" attached to bicycle wheels. Groan tubes are sounded by a reed which moves inside a plastic pipe thus changing its length and the frequency of the note produced.
For groan tubes, smoke alarms, car horns and marshall stacks. Club Disobey - London.
Piece for dustbin, half a bicycle, two electric motors and twelve saws.
Two resonating devices.
A steel sheet vibrated by a motor and manipulated by other motors and a hand saw - recorded at the BBC with sound artists Clive Graham, Clive Hall and Michael Prime. Mixed by Clive Graham. Released on the Paradigm Discs label.
The interaction between overtones created by small low voltage motors with strips of tape attached used to vibrate cymbals and piano strings and with a small weight added to vibrate a steel sheet. (the piece builds over a period of two minutes and then continues for 16 minutes before fading out over two minutes)
Two organ pipes of slightly different lengths around eight foot tall. The audio was recorded by moving a microphone from side to side in front the mouths of the pipes. The sound is in the low frequency range so may not be heard on mobile phone or laptop speakers.
For piano and electric motors.
For sewing machine, electric motor, guitar bass drum and hihat cymbal.
Poem for pieces of metal, Formula 1 car engines, jet engines and the space shuttle.
Duration 10 minutes.
For small motors, lampshade and floor.
Meaning machine #2 (meaning, selfie, truth) - for organ pipes and speakers.
