balloon bass

http://www.balloonbass.com/recordings.html

-Carl

Carl,
This is neat. I've been a fan of balloon instruments ever since the
70's, when I used balloon resonators inside flower pots to mount
plowshare percussion. I also made balloon drums, balloon flutes, and
bass balloon-a-phones, which were kind of like bassoons out of sewer
pipes with balloons vibrating with wind pressure. I never thought of
this guy's balloon bass. What a sound!

Coincidentally, I've been working on a piece for balloon drums and
other instruments, which appears on my podcast channel, as bumper
music between programs. Latest is at http://podcast1024.libsyn.com

Small world.

Prent

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> http://www.balloonbass.com/recordings.html
>
> -Carl

>Coincidentally, I've been working on a piece for balloon drums and
>other instruments, which appears on my podcast channel, as bumper
>music between programs. Latest is at http://podcast1024.libsyn.com

The text around Christopher Bailey's picture isn't flowing very well
on ie or firefox... how does it look on your end?

-Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:

>>Coincidentally, I've been working on a piece for balloon drums and
>>other instruments, which appears on my podcast channel, as bumper
>>music between programs. Latest is at http://podcast1024.libsyn.com
>> >>
>
>The text around Christopher Bailey's picture isn't flowing very well
>on ie or firefox... how does it look on your end?
> >

Looks fine in Thunderbird.

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

David Beardsley wrote:

>Carl Lumma wrote:
>
> >
>>>Coincidentally, I've been working on a piece for balloon drums and
>>>other instruments, which appears on my podcast channel, as bumper
>>>music between programs. Latest is at http://podcast1024.libsyn.com
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>The text around Christopher Bailey's picture isn't flowing very well
>>on ie or firefox... how does it look on your end?
>> >>
>> >>
>
>Looks fine in Thunderbird.
>
> >
I mean FireFox.

--
* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

>Carl,
>This is neat. I've been a fan of balloon instruments ever since the
>70's, when I used balloon resonators inside flower pots to mount
>plowshare percussion. I also made balloon drums, balloon flutes, and
>bass balloon-a-phones, which were kind of like bassoons out of sewer
>pipes with balloons vibrating with wind pressure.

Wow! Do any recordings of these survive?

>I never thought of this guy's balloon bass. What a sound!

I really like the sound too. His playing isn't always as
accurate as I'd like, but sometimes it is.

>Coincidentally, I've been working on a piece for balloon drums and
>other instruments, which appears on my podcast channel, as bumper
>music between programs. Latest is at http://podcast1024.libsyn.com
>
>Small world.

Wow, the expressiveness of the instrumentals in BalloonDrumMusic10&11
seems to have taken a quantum leap since the last time I listened to
your stuff. Are you using a breath controller or something?

I assume the tuning here is the 11-limit diamond?

-Carl

>Carl,
>This is neat. I've been a fan of balloon instruments ever since the
>70's, when I used balloon resonators inside flower pots to mount
>plowshare percussion. I also made balloon drums, balloon flutes, and
>bass balloon-a-phones, which were kind of like bassoons out of sewer
>pipes with balloons vibrating with wind pressure.

Wow! Do any recordings of these survive?

>I never thought of this guy's balloon bass. What a sound!

I really like the sound too. His playing isn't always as
accurate as I'd like, but sometimes it is.

>Coincidentally, I've been working on a piece for balloon drums and
>other instruments, which appears on my podcast channel, as bumper
>music between programs. Latest is at http://podcast1024.libsyn.com
>
>Small world.

Wow, the expressiveness of the instrumentals in BalloonDrumMusic10&11
seems to have taken a quantum leap since the last time I listened to
your stuff. Are you using a breath controller or something?

I assume the tuning here is the 11-limit diamond?

-Carl

You're right. I need to reduce the size of the pix.
Prent
> >>>
> >>The text around Christopher Bailey's picture isn't flowing very well
> >>on ie or firefox... how does it look on your end?