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Radio
Television Hong Kong: Radio 4
March 25: What the Heck is THAT?
Jaques Offenbach: The GrandGallope
played on "the Majestic Bellowphone"; "a random cluster of homemade organ pipes powered by rubber squeeze balls"
Leonard Solomon; Ellipsis Arts
Agustin Lara: Maria Bonita
played on the Chiapan Marimba, a chromatic marimba with a buzzing membrane attached to the bottom of the resonators
Marimba Yajalon; Heart of Wood Project
Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Choir: Pilentze Pee, Ergen, Diado, Schopska Pesen
Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Choir; Elektra/Nonesuch
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins in tromba marina, 2 recorders, 2 mandolins, 2 chalumeaux, 2 theorbos, and cello; RV 588
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi; Virgin
Bellerofonte Castaldi; Sgroppato passeggio, etc.
Jakob Lindberg, theorbo; BIS
Bradford Reed: Motivational Music for Pedestrians
played on the Pencilina, a combination modified electric bass and guitar with extra bridges played flat like a zither, and struck with drumsticks or bowed, with bells added
Bradford Reed; Ellipsis Arts
Bart Hopkin: Libido, Desruto, and Darlene; and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednigo
played on any number of newly invented instruments, including scraper flutes (pan pipes with grooves carved into them and played by scraping like a guiro), tubalon (horizontal buzzing chimes), dual slide whistle (two slide whistles taped together and played more or less simultanteously), and Savart’s Wheel (a motorized, tuned rasp)
Bart Hopkin; Experimental Musical Instruments
Steve Turre: Spirit Man
played on a chorus of conch shells
Steve Turre, others; Antilles
Mars Bonfire: Born To Be Wild
Evelyn Glennie; BMG
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Reichel/Rudiger: Tentacles, to Boot
played on the Daxophone, a series of wooden slabs of various shapes, sizes, and thicknesses, that are bowed or struck
Hans Reichel, daxophone; Carl Rudiger, accordion; Free Music Production
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Rondo, K. 617
Dennis James, glass harmonica; Emerson String Quartet; Sony
Elomar Figueria: Arrumacao
played on any number of newly invented instruments, especially tuned percussion including a Glass Marimba; the Gram Pan (a series of tuned open pipes played by striking the open ends with a paddle) and the Trilobite (an instrument much like the Gram Pan, but with closed ends)
Uakti; Ellipsis Arts
Arthea: Pentatonic
played on any number of newly invented instruments, including the Kotar, a zither like instrument with a buzzing bridge
Arthea; Ellipsis Arts
Colin Offord: Heavenly Flower
played on the Great Island Mouthbow (a five stringed instrument with diaphragm and tube leading to the mouth, which can be used to change the resultant harmonics something like a bowed digeridoo, and the Eagle Feather Flute
Colin Offord; Ellipsis Arts
Alan Tower: Elegy for the Missing
played on the Huaca, a triple chambered clay ocarina invented by Sharon Rowell capable of polyphony or playing against a drone
Alan Tower; Ellipsis Arts
Bart Hopkin: It Starts to Rain; and Use Me
played on any number of newly invented instruments, including the Scraper Flutes, the Nail Rasp (a series of nails hammered into a piece of wood and delicately scraped with another nail or bowed), Bass Cat’s Face (a number of steel rods with rattles on a sound board), the Membrane Reeds (large tubes with balloon rubber over the ends, which are blown into), and the Twist String Harp (a harp with two nylon strings for each note which are tuned by twisting the strings together, placed over a Styrofoam ice chest as a resonating chamber)
Bart Hopkin; Experimental Musical Instruments
Hans Reichel: Machines Make Me Happy
Hans Reichel, daxophone; Free Music Productions