#waterphone

[aliceonsaturn]

[pharmacophile]

Trazodone be giving me dreams like “all the chefs on Hell’s Kitchen are paid actors”

[helium-stims]

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[nctrnm]

#NowPlaying: "Meldings" by bartonmusic

[daily-instruments]

Daily Instrument — Waterphone

The waterphone is an inharmonic acoustic percussion instrument made in the late 1960s. It’s commonly used in movies, with its eerie and scary timbre. The waterphone has a bowl or pan as a resonator, a neck, and bronze rods of varying sizes across the resonator’s rim. The instrument is played either with a bow or drummed.

[residentanchor]

I keep a lot of my silly headcanons to myself but here’s one of my favorites.

Virgil’s musical instrument.

Possible scenario:

All the sides talk about instruments they can play and have silly jam sessions. After Virgil joins them, they ask if he can play anything and he says yes and they set up another jam session.

Then Virgil shows up with a waterphone. He sits in the corner and makes scary noises all night.

[zikadraws]

*hands Abigail a waterphone and a Theremin* This waterphone is played kinda like a violin. You can just use your bow for it, And the Theremin, well, that's a really tough instrument to learn, but I think it would be worth it in the end.

She did not touch the theremin yet, she's way too absorbed... But it'll come, eventually.

(Thank you for this discovery, after all it's not like I needed to sleep tonight or anything -v-''')

[bluetapes]

The global Blue Tapes roster has combined to make a 24-min piece of music figuratively depicting 24 hours on our planet. All proceeds go to the charities INQUEST and 350.org

Today Bandcamp are also donating their share of sales to NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Listen and download here: https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/vol-4-earthtone

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Some background:

It has been said that the frequency produced by the Earth’s revolutions is 136.102 Hz, or C#.

It has further been suggested that this tone corresponds to the meditative ‘Om’ sound, or even the ‘Amen’ of the Christian tradition.

At Blue Tapes, we have absolutely no idea whether any of this is true. But it’s a nice story, and a nice way to frame a dialogue between musicians from across the world, reacting with horror and sadness to recent events.

Earthtone is a 24-minute collaborative piece in C# by the Blue Tapes roster that has been structured to figuratively depict 24 hours on the piece of rock hurtling through space that we all call home.

Although it was completed during lockdown, we actually began recording the piece back in November 2019. Then, it felt important to make a collective statement about life on our rock, emphasising our similarities over our differences in the face of mounting division, inequality, nationalism, and the rejection of science and sanity by our leaders.

Then 2020 happened. Breathtaking environmental destruction, global pandemic, civilian uprisings against oppressive governments and institutionally racist law enforcement.

Life for all of us changed a lot during the time it took to make this poem about Earth. No piece of music can salve the injustices and pain felt by so many people right now. This collaboration – dreamed into life by musicians from Brazil to Japan and all kinds of places inbetween – is just a useless, beautiful reminder that we are all one species, one organism.

Our sicknesses and plights don’t start and stop along the fiction of national borders. If one of our groups is suffering, then the responsibility lies with the rest of us to provide protection and implement healing measures.