Last Saturday was the inaugural instrument building workshop at the wonderful Machinesroom in Limewharf. I learnt a lot from running it and hopefully the participants did too, each person made a completely different instrument to everyone else. We spent the day and turned this: Into these: I also consulted on and helped figure out waysContinue reading “Results from the Scrapitar workshop!”
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Death of Narrative (and Happy Birthdays)
A good friend of mine and collaborator Ryan Cockerham is performing an amazing piece with his comrade Er-Gene Kahng on the 27th of this month at The Great Hall, Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas. The piece, “Music on a Long-Thin Wire” by Alvin Lucier, uses a long-string instrument which I gave technical support and theoryContinue reading “Death of Narrative (and Happy Birthdays)”
The Great Home Hack
Here are a few photos from The Great Home Hack, it was a fun and cold weekend, met lots of interesting people and didn’t lose my voice explaining myself!
Fret Placement Tutorial
I get asked quite often about how I figure out where to put the frets on my instruments. Building proper guitars takes incredibly precise measurements, the length of the neck and the height of the nut and all sorts of different factors go into measuring the exact placement of guitar frets. My stuff tends toContinue reading “Fret Placement Tutorial”
Instrument building workshop!
I’ve been having some fun meetings over at Machines Room, in Limewharf about running some workshops with their scrap materials. And I’m happy to announce the first (hopefully of many) workshop will be on March 21st! “During this 4-hr workshop you will learn how to build your own 3-stringed, fretted instrument from scratch, from scraps!Continue reading “Instrument building workshop!”
The Great Home Hack
I will be exhibiting some of my creations at The Great Home Hack. “The Great Home Hack will make its debut at Fulham Palace on March 13-15 and will feature new and original works from leading designers, artists and creators within the world of upcycling. Curated by Channel 4’s Max McMurdo, the weekend will includeContinue reading “The Great Home Hack”
Piano Stool Viol
It’s been a while since I made this one, but things have been very busy over here and I never got around to playing it much! It’s made entirely from a broken piano stool! The neck was one of the legs and then the body is made from 3 planks that surrounded just underneath theContinue reading “Piano Stool Viol”
Vulpestruments at the Model Engineering Exhibiton
This Friday I will be exhibiting some of my creations at the Makers area of this years Model Engineering Exhibiton at Sandown Park. It’s going to be a pretty interesting day, hopefully some of you can make it!
Dronitar Reverie
MAKER FAIRE is coming up, and I’ve been busy finishing up a bunch of instruments and noise makers to bring along with me. It’s going to be a seriously amazing event and I’m really excited to be a part of it. I just hope I’ll find time to have a look around myself! http://makerfaireelephantandcastle.com/ You’llContinue reading “Dronitar Reverie”
Mini Coconut Kora
Although I made this one a while ago, I’ve only got around to making a recording of it! It’s a mini-Kora style instrument made from one half of a novelty coconut bra, a plank of wood and a bunch of piano tuning pins.
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