Re: [tuning] bicycle music

Just to make this thread more complete, it should be notes that Richard
Lerman's "travelon gamelan" made use of bicycles and parts thereof in an
alternatively tuned environment; at least one work of P.D.Q. Bach (Peter
Schickele) featured a prominent role for bicycle (especially blown
handlebars); and Gordon Mumma's interview in his episode of Robert Ashley's
"video opera" _Music with Roots in the Aether_ contains a bit of theoretical
discourse on the subject of the bicycle as folk instrument.

Daniel Wolf

Daniel Wolf wrote:
>
> Just to make this thread more complete, it should be notes that Richard
> Lerman's "travelon gamelan" made use of bicycles and parts thereof in an
> alternatively tuned environment; at least one work of P.D.Q. Bach (Peter
> Schickele) featured a prominent role for bicycle (especially blown
> handlebars); and Gordon Mumma's interview in his episode of Robert Ashley's
> "video opera" _Music with Roots in the Aether_ contains a bit of theoretical
> discourse on the subject of the bicycle as folk instrument.

A young Frank Zappa played bicycle on the Steve
Allen show.

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Skip LaPlante has done marvelous things with bicycle spokes in his group
Music For Homemade Instruments. He sets the rims on the floor and spins
them, using chop sticks, or other kinds of sticks to make them "sing."

Johnny Reinhard