Credit: Gary Hunt
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The Sound of Steel is an exhibition of sculptured percussion instruments. It is an exploration of sound and making with materials and processes familiar to designer, musician and steel fabricator Gary Hunt.
The forms of the contraptions, resembling musicians ready to strike up the band, came about through an idea of an orchestra of percussion to accompany Gary’s own playing. The instruments are played manually, either by a crank device or electronically programmed microprocessors through Arduino coupled with Ableton software.
The componentry is a mix of found objects (skateboard components, sewing machine parts, seagull feathers) with crafted percussive shapes (bells, triangles, shakers, chimes, drum, discs) and mechanisms (pulleys, gears, cranks, solenoids, stepper motors).
This exhibition is presented in partnership with Helium Project featuring a suite of music composed by Nick Edgar and performed with Gary’s hand-crafted percussion instruments.
The Sound of Steel is an exhibition of sculptured percussion instruments. It is an exploration of sound and making with materials and processes familiar to designer, musician and steel fabricator Gary Hunt.
The forms of the contraptions, resembling musicians ready to strike up the band, came about through an idea of an orchestra of percussion to accompany Gary’s own playing. The instruments are played manually, either by a crank device or electronically programmed microprocessors through Arduino coupled with Ableton software.
The componentry is a mix of found objects (skateboard components, sewing machine parts, seagull feathers) with crafted percussive shapes (bells, triangles, shakers, chimes, drum, discs) and mechanisms (pulleys, gears, cranks, solenoids, stepper motors).
This exhibition is presented in partnership with Helium Project featuring a suite of music composed by Nick Edgar and performed with Gary’s hand-crafted percussion instruments.
