Music? Sculpture?

Gamelan of Nommunication by Heri Dono Gamelan instruments are arranged on a bed of white sand. Simple mechanical devices play the instruments. A monitor displays minimal images like a shadow play. Primitive but vigorous sounds of the instruments harmonize with sampled voices, musics and with the images, to create a coherence within the diversity. The word "Nommunication" is play on the Japanese words for "drink" and "communication." (text from the online exhibit)

"New York, New York" arranged for Car Horn Organ by Wendy Mae Chambers Real Audio Excerpt According to Gravikords, Whirlies, & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments, Chambers is inernationally renowned for playing the toy piano, composing for large ensembles such as 100 timpani, and   arranging familiar tunes for the car horn organ, which she invented in 1983 with a sound engineer and her father.

Image, information, and recording from CD: Hopkin, Bart. Gravikords, Whirlies, & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments. Ellipsis Arts, 1998.

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