28 March 2009

Interesting Orchestra Instruments

If you enjoyed the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, you'll be interested in these instruments, created by a musician in Japan:



Heita, who describes himself as a "Vegetable musician, Amateur poet" has posted 31 videos at YouTube of his various vegetable instruments: Burdock, Egg, Ostrich Egg, Carrot, Broccoli, Apple, Pumpkin, and Radish ocarinas, Cucumber trumpet, Carrot slide slide flutes, Radish slide flutes - an amazing variety of instruments!

Here's the Big Broccoli ocarina:

14 March 2009

Button Beats

Visit a very interesting web page if you like to experiment with sound: Button Beats
Here are a few samples:


ButtonBeats.com




ButtonBeats.com





ButtonBeats.com


Click on this link to go to the web page and sample all the fun ways to create sound. (The pages have ads in the margins - be careful.)