Brooklyn-based artist Ranjit Bhatnagar works with sound installations and homemade instruments. He created this music box guided by a Möbius strip. It’d be perfect for playing “The Song That Never Ends“! Bhatnagar made the music box as part of a project to create a musical instrument every day for a month.
K!P
yes it must be art, if you take something simple and make it more complicated than it has to be.
SenorMysterioso
I bought one of these hand crank music boxes for about $7, it came with paper strips that you punch out to create your songs. It looks like he is using the exact same one I have just mounted on the bottom of a tin can. I taped a few songs into loops because its easier than collecting your song after it goes through and refeeding it into the music box.
I didn’t even think of trying a mobius strip, it seems like it would reverse the notes from top to bottom and beginning to end at various points.
SenorMysterioso
Its hard to tell if that happens with the song he is using
Jill
The Mobius strip is a nice touch, but any old circular strip would work. Holes in paper are holes in paper.
Sorry to be a spoil sport.
Jill
v.dog
@jill: you’re wrong.
The second half of the song is the same as the first half with the scale inverted- the high notes become the low notes and vice versa.
The real art here is making both halves sound good.
DCGaymer
Ok I get use of a mobius strip versus a loop….but where’s the payoff….when I hear those tones something in me expects a jack-in-the-box to spring forth.
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