Möbius Strip Music Box

By John Farrier in Art, Music, Video Clips on Aug 28, 2009 at 11:19 am


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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.

Artist’s Website via Popular Science


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  1. K!P
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    yes it must be art, if you take something simple and make it more complicated than it has to be.

  2. ReverendTed
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    More awesome, K!P, more awesome than it has to be.

  3. K!P
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    :)

    (damn engineering background)

  4. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    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.

  5. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Its hard to tell if that happens with the song he is using

  6. Jill
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    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

  7. v.dog
    Aug 28th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    @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.

  8. DCGaymer
    Aug 29th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    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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