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