Any material or object can get a second chance as a recycled musical instrument
All percussions and atmospheres in ‘Tu Ansiedad como Receta’ were made with old cassette players, recording all their sounds when recording, rewinding, playing, clicking on its buttons, etc.
This also happens with the percussions and the atmospheres in most of the tracks. I pick up any object I find and use it as an instrument, hitting it and listening to the noises that it makes, and then use these sounds to create my music.
I have a lot of inputs in my mixer just for piezo microphones and for the handy recorder. Last one’s is routed with a tactile app to touch and modify the sound waves that come from it.
With an old hard drive that didn’t work anymore, disassembling it and making the platter spin, I could create some deep frequencies and recorded them with a microphone, and then used them as a bass and sub-bass.
All these sounds that I got from this hard drive were then introduced in a toy keyboard’s through a microphone input, creating a chaotic distortion, which I could play then with the keyboard.
I also want to work digitally with the hard drive to automate the write arm and head to make melodies with the sound that it makes when scratching the platter.
Once it occured to me to put lots of microphones all around in my bike. Wheels, bell, brakes, brakes’ cables… But I specially liked the deep sounds I made with the tires. Spokes worked as the strings of an instrument, and with the piezo microphone you can make sounds just by touching them softly. Each spoke make a different tone, so I have in mind making an instrument with it.
Another special instrument is this one here, made with a big cardboard paper and a steel extension spring. When shaking the spring, it creates an echo with really interesting atmospheres that sound like metal thunders or storms.
