Re: WATER MUSIC

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

At 4:57 PM -0300 10/3/02, Matthias Grob wrote:
>UAKTI, a really good brasilian band known for creating their own 
>instruments and having done things with Phil Glass created a nice 
>and simple water instrument:
>A tank on top of a doubble tube (telescope like). The water from the 
>tank drops (single drops or current) into the inner tube where the 
>resonance of the tube is activated. I dont quite remember where the 
>water goes from there, or how they avoid the tube to fill up. The 
>outer tube can be moved to change pitch. What you hear is pitched 
>water sound.

That sounds like it would sound really nice. Has anyone figured out a 
way to blow pitched bubbles underwater? I imagine something similar 
might work, but like most things I imagine, I also imagine there are 
lots of tricks and fine points to learn and share.....?


-Alex S.