{"id":76,"date":"2020-09-23T16:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrunderwood.co.uk\/dev\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2020-09-28T14:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:28:34","slug":"mammoth-beat-organ","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/on-the-bench\/mammoth-beat-organ\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Beat Organ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Mammoth Beat Organ is a modular, mechanical music contraption designed and built by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grahamdunning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Dunning <\/a>and I. Designed as a two-player, semi-autonomous musical instrument, it plays unusual, sometimes erratic compositions drawing on drone music, minimalist repetition and fairground organ techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its core is a driveshaft that all main units run off. Acoustic sound making devices are built into or onto the main units, providing me and Graham with an ever growing list of things to design and build. As such, it is always <em>On The Bench<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently in development for the Mammoth Beat Organ are an updated bellows system and a replacement Intonarumori Hurdy Gurdy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/mrunderwood.co.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb-508x339.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mbo-supersonicweb.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mammoth Beat Organ &#8211; debut Performance at Supersonic 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We mostly document our work on this through  our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MammothBeatOrgan\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>. The video below provides a good introduction to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Do They Make It?! Music (Mammoth Beat Organ)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9C-Ggcv7GiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For an in-depth description of it and two modules we recently created, here&#8217;s what we presented at NIME 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sam Underwood and Graham Dunning - Keynote Performance\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gDT5tPbwBDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mammoth Beat Organ is a modular, mechanical music contraption designed and built by Graham Dunning and I. Designed as a two-player, semi-autonomous musical instrument, it plays unusual,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":70,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}