When deciding for my musical
instrument, it wasn’t that hard enough for me to choose what am I going to
make. The exercise that was given from the past is a good precision of things
that will be base from the last part of the exercise. I wanted to put up a
chaotic yet controllable sound for my musical instrument and it will be
flexible to the other group when I play it in a flamboyant manner. The idea of
using the oil drum came from last year, which I think it’s a good device where
the sonic vibration from the metal rods will vibrate through the oil drum.
During when I was building the musical instrument, I thought of many ways on
utilizing every parts of the oil drum. I could use the body as the sound when
knocking it with hand or scratching it with something else. I could also put
any type of liquid or things that inside the drum that will make a unique sound
when it’s knocked or scratched. In short, it could be anything that will carry
out sound for the oil drum. In the end I just decided to have metal rods
sticking on top of the oil drum in order to vibrate on it when making the
sound. Different size of rods will make different volume of sound. After I set
it up, I test it and it works kind of fine but I wondered if I still need to
put more something in order to have a complexity of sound when vibrating the
metal rods but I guess it wouldn’t matter much since the sound is loud enough
to be heard in a quite long distance. This musical instrument was a good
producer of sound during the performance when it was vibrating with the other
instrument, which coincides and blends with the other musical instruments. The
performance is played within the followed flow of the visual graphics and I
kind of played as I go and just listen to the other to have the timing. It was
great in the end and I learned the lesson of the importance of sound not just
music but the other types as well.
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