Imagine the situation. You're a noise musician, so you want to play things like vacuum cleaners and garden tools on stage. Your problem? Roadies just don't take you seriously. Connecticut musician Tard has a solution: On the left: "This is an old Lectrolux vacuum cleaner motor put in a DIY wood box. Has a much different (deeper, richer) sound than the original metal vacuum cleaner casing." and on the right: "Just a regular household weed-wacker, BUT... Made a DIY wood box for the rechargable battery and put the motor in a PVC pipe. Added a safety switch so the power has to be turned on AND the PVC button held down at the same time to start. Makes a nice "rackety" dentist-drill whirr." He also has a fantastic guitar pickup in a little box for location noise recording. (Thanks, Cementimental)
10/02/2006
Fine tuning your vacuum cleaner's sound
Imagine the situation. You're a noise musician, so you want to play things like vacuum cleaners and garden tools on stage. Your problem? Roadies just don't take you seriously. Connecticut musician Tard has a solution: On the left: "This is an old Lectrolux vacuum cleaner motor put in a DIY wood box. Has a much different (deeper, richer) sound than the original metal vacuum cleaner casing." and on the right: "Just a regular household weed-wacker, BUT... Made a DIY wood box for the rechargable battery and put the motor in a PVC pipe. Added a safety switch so the power has to be turned on AND the PVC button held down at the same time to start. Makes a nice "rackety" dentist-drill whirr." He also has a fantastic guitar pickup in a little box for location noise recording. (Thanks, Cementimental)
I used to play with my electric shaver :) It gives quite funny vowel sounds when you change the shaver position and mouth size. Once I sampled a perforator sound when our neighbours were doing an overhaul of their flat. Also I love the noise of a welding apparatus (when it's got welding load) , but I have not sampled it yet.
ReplyDeleteI crossed a vacuum cleaner with an old accordion. I called it The Wheeze-o-tron and it was quite a hit, for a while.
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