These are Sound Sculptures numbers 3 and 1 for close ups put your mouse over different parts of the instrument and click.
These are horns made out of a part of a radiator, some plumbing fixtures, brass piping and fitted with mouth pieces. The first one horn #1 has a trombone mouth piece. The second horn I made, horn #2 is mostly sink parts fitted with a trumpet horn, duel necks with a tuba mouth piece on one and a trumpet mouth piece on the other.
for close ups put your mouse over different parts of the instrument and click.
Voice Gobbler series II These two are based on Texas Instrument Touch & Tell toys. I've worked with a pretty vast amount of different speech synthesizers and I have found the TI stuff to be most flexible. There are a number of Gobblers around the house and they all make random loops, spurt gibberish and sound like C3PO about to throw up. Q.R. Ghazala's Incantors are there ultimate inspiration here. Though my wiring is a bit different and I use Photo Cell resistors instead of tuning knobs the concept is truly based on my use of his Trigon Incantor.
Here is a list of some of the instruments I have built over the years.
