Makoto Nomura is a well established composer and performer well known for his work with animals and his use of the melodica as his prominent instrument. I had the pleasure of working with him last week and recording a series of improvised works to be broadcast on UK BBC Radio sometime in tthe future. Our insruments were voice, printer ink carriages, scanner motors, 9v batteries, PC CD drives, cassette motors, bean tins and CD laser head carriages. The sounds came from the motors that are attached to these gears and carriages. This was indeed 'motor music'.
We had a fantastic time experimenting with recording in the echoy corridors of the DMU PACE building.
A lot of what we worked on was lo-fi, especially the unique sounds that some of the motors made through the cardboard box amplifiers, they were very much preferable to the nice BOSE speakers whose sound was just too clean and characterless.
A very dirty night was had by all.
We had a fantastic time experimenting with recording in the echoy corridors of the DMU PACE building.
A lot of what we worked on was lo-fi, especially the unique sounds that some of the motors made through the cardboard box amplifiers, they were very much preferable to the nice BOSE speakers whose sound was just too clean and characterless.
A very dirty night was had by all.