Home Swinger
A Home Swinger is a musical instrument created by Yuri Landman. The instrument has 12 strings, an electronic pickup and a movable rod to alter the pitch of the instrument.
Landman created the instrument for workshops at European festivals, where participants built their own copy within four hours[1][2][3]. In 2010 also workshops in the US are hosted by Knitting Factory[4] and Eyedrum. In addition to this building workshop, he did musical ensemble performances with the participants.
When played at one part of a string, the opposed part starts to resonate, depending on a predictable mathematical ratio of the strings' lengths divided by the rod.[5] If the rod is on a harmonic position the created multiphonic tone is consonant and increases in volume and sustain because of the reciprocal string resonance. The sound is comparable with the sound of bells.
The Home Swinger is derived from his Moodswinger and a DIY-version of this instrument[6]. The instrument is nominated as one of the instruments for the second Guthman Musical Instrument Competition 2010 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. The MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) to be opened in 2010 in Phoenix AZ, has included the instrument as a part of their collection[7].
In 2010 the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona included a Home Swinger as well as a Moodswinger in their collection as two pieces of the Dutch section of musical instrument inventions.
References
- ^ workshop at Oscillations Festival 2009
- ^ workshop at Mon Innouie Symphony Festival 2009
- ^ http://www.leguesswho.com/ workshop at Le Guess Who? festival 2009
- ^ Article in Brooklyn Paper
- ^ http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om21600.html
- ^ press release on [[Daily News (New York)|]]
- ^ http://www.pd.org/~eyedrum/calendar/index.php?eventTypeId=2&id=3354&month=2&year=2010