The 5 Best Misuses Of Things To Make Music.
With enough balls, insanity and creativity people can take everyday objects and instruments and create something incredible. Unlabeled is now going to bring you the five best sounds that come from using everyday objects in the wrong way. Some are brilliant, some are odd, and one is just mental.
1) The Tesla Coil
The Tesla Coil
Using two twelve foot Tesla Coils, ArcAttack utilise the power of lightning to make music. As an affront to Zeus himself, two 500,000 volt electrical arches that resonate to make musical notes (or something).
If you’re wondering what sound two huge arcs of killer electricity sounds like we, have a clip.
Harnessing one of the worlds most terrifying forces to gratify your acoustical wonder is one thing, but to then have that ONE MILLION volts of deathtricity run down your body for no reason other than to put on a show is something else entirely.
Tesla coils range from a few inches to a few hundred feet, and can be built using equipment bought in almost any electrical store, so its not hard to imagine bored nerds have built them to play their bored nerdy songs. Want the Mario theme tune? We have that! Legend Of Zelda? Boom, done. The Imperial March? You’re goddamned right we have the Imperial March.
Dr. Doom
The Tesla coil was selected for its misuse of electricity.2)The Pyrophone
The Pyrophone, also known as the fire or explosion organ uses the power of explosion and rapid combustion shot up glass tubes to create a singing effect.
a pyrophone.
The instruments are popular displays at festivals and events all over the world, mostly because they make such a badass spectacle.
This is the Juggernaut Pyrophone, the worlds largest fire organ currently in operation. Try to imagine it like a pan flute, only upside down, giant and powered by explosions.
The Juggernaut is a huge visual display of firey goodness, but the pyrophone also comes in a smaller version.
proving once and for all, unless they are terrifying, experimental instruments are mostly awful. Awful, as in it sounds like a depressed whale.
The pyrophone was selected for is misuse of fire.
3) The Bassoforte
The bassoforte is brain child of Deigo Stocco, a musical inventor who also pioneered the experibass and recorded a song on a bonsai tree.
Using a similar video technique to the band Pomplamoose, Stocco uses parts of a pianoforte, parts of a bass and the pickups of a guitar to create an entirely new instrument.
Amazingly this home made instrument makes really catchy tune and plays pretty well. The sound might be a little rough but for a contraption made in some guys back yard it is pretty amazing.
The basso forte make this list for its fantastic misuse of both the piano and the bass.
4) Radiohead played on old computer parts.
Created by James Houston, a student from Glasgow, this remix utilizes outdated technology to create sounds eerily close to Radiohead’s Nude.
Using a printer, an oscilloscope, an old scanner, a spectrum and a host of old hard drives, Houston creates a haunting rendition of Radiohead’s classic.
Originally built to enter a competition from the band, James missed the deadline by only a few days but became an instant internet hit.
His version has been played on radio stations across the world and received over 100,000 Youtube hits.
This made the list thanks to its misuse of electronics
5) Fluteboxing
Fluteboxing is the unlikely combination of fluting and beatboxing with astonishing results.
This fantastic clash of musical styles was pioneered by Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee, but only rose to popularity when he caught the eye of world famous DJ Beardyman.
The captivating thing about fluteboxing is the mix of the classic sounding melodies of the flute and the ultra-modern rhythm of beat-boxing. The ensemble sounds like a band on it own, merging both percussion and wind in to one handy tube.
Fluteboxing found its to the top of the list for misusing the flute and making it sound incredible.
By Charlie Craven
