The White Albums - Four extended poems by Hastings of Malawi
Body with Organ, HOM9 the Humanoid Robot that can Read Braille, Yuri's Dream and London Zoo 1939
All released on the Papal Products label. All Hastings of Malawi releases can be heard here.
Duration 20 minutes.
When building a new supermarket in Hackney, London, Tesco Stores and Hackney Council commissioned a public sound art work as part of the development. The supermarket was built on a site where formerly there had been a street (Chalgrove Road). The work was an oral history of the missing road made from interviews with people who had lived on or near it between 1910 and 1970.
Popular on YouTube this video shows "groan tubes" attached to bicycle wheels. Groan tubes are related to reed organ pipes. They are sounded by a reed which moves within a tube thus changing the pipe length and the frequency of the note produced. Other organ pipe experiments can be seen here
A church organ dissected and its anatomy recorded. Melody, harmony, and rhythm replaced by air, vibration and resonance.
1. Recordings of individual organ pipes recombined as a digital evocation of the inside of a church. Duration 9 minutes.
2. From Windchest to Pipes as Metaphor - a microphone travels along the insides of a church organ from the windchest where the air is produced to the pipes. Duration 3 minutes
Various experiments with organ pipes made from wood, steel tubing and taken from church organs can be seen here.
