For pieces of metal, Formula 1 car engines, jet engines and the space shuttle.
Twelve saws
An electric motor drives a bicycle wheel which raises and drops a large hammer which in turn vibrates a steel sheet. The title of this piece refers to La Monte Young's composition X (any integer) 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.
41 for Henry Flynt.
A cut section from the insides of a piano played by dragging a copper pipe across the strings. A metal bin played by dragging a steel rod across the bracket at the top and a curved steel sheet played by running a nylon tipped drumstick along its length.
The three instruments pictured being played at a festival of futurist noise music. Performed by John Bisset, Lester Moses and John Grieve
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. Released on Paradigm discs
Duet for two dustbins, half a bicycle, computer generated sounds and white noise.
Twelve saws, three bicycle wheels, a dustbin and two motors.
Metal with voice and saxophone sounds.
For cello and metal sheets featuring Bruno Guastella - cello and Aya Kasai, Lee Riley, Rob Shackleton, Veronica Cordova and John Grieve - metal.