Comments on: Hydraulophone: Water Jet/Fountain/Underwater MIDI Keyboard Instruments

By: Jeff Winkworth’s IMM Blog » Blog Archive » “Its much more than a toque, it has ear flaps!”

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:42:32 +0000

[...] concepts such as water and the inner child. Thus, he created Nesse. Nesse is what he calls his hydraulophone, which is a flute-like instrument that blows water out of a pump instead of air through your lungs. [...]

By: S. Mann

S. Mann — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:00:52 +0000

You can see and hear another version of the hydraulophone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgU0OZkGhGI

By: minimalist

minimalist — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:54:59 +0000

Waterproof Fretlless Bass

http://metalbass.com

By: hydraulist

hydraulist — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:27:55 +0000

Someone was walking past the hydraulophone and started playing some Bach on it. There is an inline video in http://wearcam.org/ and some pictures in http://wearcam.org/osc/opening/

By: J-chot

J-chot — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:06:13 +0000

I don’t need no midi controller!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZe2zMZSEw

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:53:21 +0000

There is a video here, as Daniel O pointed out; it’s in the margin:

http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/aoc/part.asp

… and if you click on the speaker just below it, you’ll get sound. (Loud; be careful!)

I also see some videos here, in other formats:
http://funtain.ca/nessievideo/

The websites are extremely hard to navigate, sorry. I guess they were busy building the things and teaching. Or the part of your brain that lets you do engineering is separate from the bit that lets you do web design. ;)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:20:28 +0000

Where’s the video? Where’s the audio?

By: matrix

matrix — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:03:49 +0000

That video is a trip. Now I can play while swiming around. : ) The eyes! ; )

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:53:39 +0000

Truly useless.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:34:11 +0000

That’s great, Daniel. I care, at least. ;)

If you get any photos, etc., let us know — not only for this site, but for Create Digital Motion, as well.

Now I have to get up to Toronto; this stuff looks great.