Art is Not Deaf
So for this object the idea was to create an object that would be used for create sound or music. I unfortunately didn’t catalog the journey for this project however I can still give the run through of the process.
We began this by having a session that went through objects in the world that are instruments to use as a point of reference and then created a diddley bow as a warm up.
For the actual instrument however I went through several reference images of different instruments that were percussion and made of sound and ended up with a wooden box tongue drum
Ultimately I kind of succeeded, kind of failed. took me a while to try to get it right. I started with flat pieces of wood and sized them to an appropriate size to get a rectangular base. Towards the end I ended up making it even smaller as the first sizing I felt was too big. I didn’t know how the actual formulas that existed to get the pitch, nor did I have experience in making a slit drum before so so couldn’t go off of past failures or successes – just internet reference pictures and videos.
The end result was …serviceable.
It’s okayish. I feel like it was definitely a learning experience and maybe in the future I’ll attempt to make one again in my free-time. I’ll post video of it when I wake up as I’m absolutely exhausted from the past week of school work.
Road to America | Portland | 2017 
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