Comments on: annoying noise http://adrianlikins.com/2009/03/annoying-noise/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chap http://adrianlikins.com/2009/03/annoying-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-2252 Chap Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:57:40 +0000 http://adrianlikins.com/?p=514#comment-2252 If my goal was to build a really annoying instrument, I'd dig through <a href="http://www.srl.org/" rel="nofollow">Survival Research Labs</a> videos, the <a href="http://www.windworld.com/" rel="nofollow">Experimental Musical Instruments</a> journal archive and links, and that scene from a Mel Brooks movie where they torture the hero with a big gauntlet on a chalkboard. There you go, a big acoustic blackboard with a resonator and with scrapy things, like a fork on a plate. Or, on the other hand, you could go look at EMI's book list and you might find something really fun to play with that wouldn't set teeth on edge... If my goal was to build a really annoying instrument, I’d dig through Survival Research Labs videos, the Experimental Musical Instruments journal archive and links, and that scene from a Mel Brooks movie where they torture the hero with a big gauntlet on a chalkboard. There you go, a big acoustic blackboard with a resonator and with scrapy things, like a fork on a plate.

Or, on the other hand, you could go look at EMI’s book list and you might find something really fun to play with that wouldn’t set teeth on edge…

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