I-beam music
This is "The Beam" as we call it. A steel I-beam about 4.5m long with a weight of aprox. 500Kg. It has six strings (fat piano wire) that run all around the instrument. Tuning is done with turnbuckels on the bottomside. Some bass-pickups allow amplification of the instrument I-beam Instrument

  
Barry Schwartz is testing the mechanism of the automatic bottleneck actuator. This solenoid is pressing (or not) a glass tube against the strings of the I-beam instrument that passes below. Thereby constituting something like a bottleneck guitar. B.Schwartz + I-beam

Barry Schwartz
  
I-beam sound 1 (74K)
I-beam sound 2 (104K)
subjective camera inside the I-beam
subjective camera
I-beam sound 3 (118K)
I-beam sound 4 (72K)
subjective camera at dry-ice turntable
subjective camera
I-beam sound 5 (141K)
surveillance camera: I-beam filled with liquid nitrogen
surveillance camera
I-beam sound 6 (139K)
surveillance camera: Baginsky plays I-beam
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I-beam sound 7 (54K)
surveillance camera: Baginsky plays I-beam
surveillance camera
I-beam sound 8 (22K) surveillance camera: High voltage arc
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: High voltage causing video disturbance
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: High voltage arc
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: High voltage arc
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: High voltage arc
surveillance camera
subjective camera inside the I-beam
surveillance camera
subjective camera inside the I-beam
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: High voltage arc
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: audience
surveillance camera
subjective camera at dry-ice turntable
surveillance camera
subjective camera at dry-ice turntable
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: High voltage causing video disturbance
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: overall view
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: detail, set of wheels
surveillance camera
surveillance camera: audience
surveillance camera