Ken Butler’s Hybrid Musical Instrument Sculptures

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Music, Pictures on February 28, 2008 at 11:07 am


Artist and musician Ken Butler makes hybrid musical instrument sculptures out of boots, weapons, tools, furniture. He has even staged performances where he played his eccentric instruments: Link | String Hybrid Instrument Gallery - via Jaf Project



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4 comments to "Ken Butler’s Hybrid Musical Instrument Sculptures"

  1. hark
    February 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

    the thing that makes it more than a cute gimmick is he’s actually interesting to listen to play. what he can do with a blowing on a strip of dental rubber is quite masterful.

  2. Pudifoot
    February 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    I have seen several shoe-horns, but that is the first boot-guitar i have seen.

  3. Tim
    February 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    I have seen dumber ideas…

  4. the man
    February 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    I second Ken Butler’s Performance Skillz.

    I’ve seen him twice on either coast and he is great.

    When i saw him he was self-looping his music with a lexicon jam man, doing his own accompaniment. Plus when he plays that dental dam he sounds like Dizzy Gillespie . Not like just a trumpet but like Diz.

    Check out his you tubes

    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ken+Butler&search_type=


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