Re: 1st Y2k5 pictures and DAY ONE AND DAY TWO's concerts

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

The daxaphone is *bizarre* sounding instrument.  To hear more, check
out Hans Reichel's catalog, or there's one track of it on that
"Whirlyphones..." CD that came with the book.  He's also got pictures
of his beautiful and bizarre many daxes on his website.  Great stuff!


TravisH

On 10/7/05, loop.pool <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> I played an improv set with Matt Davignon on drum machine (please go out 
>and
> buy BWOO,  it's a really unique
> and extremely creative CD) and the Hideki came and joined us playing the
> amazing
> 'daxaphone'  which is an instrument that I saw him play in Kyoto at the
> looping festival there earlier this summer.
>
> He is an incredible craftsperson and has a factory that makes the 
>beautiful
> electric mandolins that he plays in concert.
> This instrument is just a piece of then hardwood, carved like a dagger 
>that
> has a pickup on it.
> You play it with a bow and 'fret' it with a wooden 'slide' that has 
>frets on
> the bottom of it in a curved shape.
> In this way you can roll the 'slide' over the board and it tunes the 
>wood as
> you bow it.
>
> It sounds uncannily human;  almost like little boys and girls who are 
>making
> nonsense sounds.  It's extremely expressive and
> Hideki played it while I processed him in the EDP and the Repeater.
>