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The Sound of Paper: Live Recordings
Last night was the paper instrument premier of The Sound of Paper at the Art Cézar gallery! We played a few short pieces, two of which you can hear live concert recordings of now:

1. Storm Media player: Click to play (1 min 43 sec)
A piece for paper xylophone and assorted paper winds.
2. Didgeriduel Media player: Click to play (1 min 16 sec)
A piece for two dueling paper didgeridoos, paper tube harp, paper drum, and--unintentionally--dog.

Here's a picture of the band rehearsing. From left to right: Frank Maes on paper drum, a blurry Hendrik Goris playing the paper xylophone faster than the eye can see, myself adjusting a paper slide-flute (note that the skirt is made of paper as well), and Stefan Langerman on the paper hand-flute. In the corner you can see the two black tubes of the tube bass, and most of the giant didgeritube.

So you can get an idea of the theatrics behind the didgeriduel, here is Stefan with the giant didgeridoo which extended into the audience (it is not at full length in this picture), and myself with a comparatively small didge.

Here is Hendrik playing the tube harp. Like the paper xylophone, the pitches can be adjusted easily by changing the lengths of the tubes.

— posted Sunday, March 08, 2009 at 12:12PM EDT