Following on from my time as Town Hall Symphony Hall Birmingham Artist-in-Residence, I was asked to design and built two slap organs, or thongaphones. They both had novel twists on the established instrument. One featured as part of a garden-based sound installation in a Birmingham school, with the pipes collecting water for the garden. The other was a portable two-player slap organ for use in workshops.

As pictured above, I also provided a novel attachment for the portable slap organ that allowed them to demonstrate what it sounds like when air is blown through the pipes…