A real brief performance on a model of the Empire State Building, which I commandeered from a buddy years ago and turned into a contact microphone by letting a bath of liquid Rochelle salt crystallize around its base. It works much better as a thumb piano than a microphone, but I did succeed at capturing the interior sound of an object with no flat surfaces. I imagine it could be a pretty sick feedback generator at high volumes, but I'm saving that for someone I hate.

Maquette 1 (mono)

As something too relevant to be called a side-project, I've been working on turning my whole apartment into an air-pressure responsive diaphragm like those found in any dynamic mic. You can buy a fancier, higher-powered equivalent of a de-coned loudspeaker that vibrates whatever surface it's attached to, reproducing some ridiculous Americana band's music in every instance I've seen one demonstrated. I've never heard of anyone using one to ~collect~ sound, maybe because they're too high-powered. But as usual, the half-assed homemade equivalent of a de-coned three-dollar loudspeaker attached to a wall has proven initially successful. On this recording I walk from one end of the house to the other banging on the Irish bodhran, with none of the show-offy rapidfire playing I coincidentally can't do. Drums are good for testing because they carry many simultaneous pitches, are easy to repeat a sound on and a hundred other reasons.

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