the Bass Manta and the Resophonic Manta get some play

[jeff_snyder]

Hi,
I'll get this forum started... I posted a video of a performance of my work for the Wet Ink Ensemble playing all instruments I designed and built. It includes two people playing manta, both of which are using two mantas at once. These mantas have special resonators built for them - I call them the bass manta, and the resophonic manta. The bass manta resonator is built like a double bass, with a spruce front, a maple back, a maple bridge and a maple soundpost. The resophonic manta is built like a Dobro guitar, with a spun aluminum cone contacting a spruce front. Both of them use a large electromagnet to drive the resonator, so audio from the computer (controlled by the manta) sets the resonator into vibration.
The other instruments are my treble and tenor contravielles (kind of like string instruments) and the birl, my electromechanical wind instrument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPdfeJx7dmc

-Jeff

[fluxpod]

Very nice!