Do you feel like somebody's constantly
following you?
Hi and welcome to TRICKS, the music show with the small budget. I'm Tracky Birthday and here with me is
my friendly assistant and sex slave Hasi
International.
Today we want to look at some DIY instruments, such as the Sonic Tronic, the *oomba or the Rauschkugel.
Circuit bending can be an easy and fun
way to experiment and start creating
your own musical devices. All you need is
a couple of crocodile clips, a
screwdriver and some kids toys.
These bad boys are relatively cheap, you can find
them in a store near to you...
Here's a wonderful fire truck that we found...
The sound trip is usually so good that you
can...
you can already make music with them
without having bent them... but but let's
just try and open them up.
OK, this looks nice...
...so let'stry to first access the sound chip which should look kind of like this...
Now basically what you do is connect
elements of the sound chip that aren't
supposed to be connected... so for example let's connect this one what we do is we
connect it to one of these things [potentiometer] that
regulate the amount of electricity that
flows through them...
...it's like overloading the...
It's just noise, man!
That was it for today's circuit bending lesson...
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what... What's it in English "Paket"?
Package
I got a package from our friends from Vienna. Remember Vegetable Orchestra?
Yas, what did they send us?!?
Yeah!
CARROT FLUTES!
Nice!
Play them something!
Tasty! And fresh sounding...
Perfect! Thanks, guys from Vienna!
And as I otherwise would have nothing to participate to this jolly handicrafts afternoon,
I invited someone who's really awesome on things. A guy who transformed my dark,
catholic, stressful childhood down in
the mines of Wuerttemberg to merry times
of joy and fuck-off. So please welcome in
our ivory tower today: the marathon man,
instrument maker, musician and all-round
funny guy. The legendary, the one and only
INGO INSTERBURG!
Yes, good day.
Good day, Mr. Insterburg. Nice you made it!
Yes, I've got plenty of time as I'm retired...
Let me quickly... I have to switch into German because Mr. Insterburg is from Insterburg.
That's a town in Eastern-Germany.
You brought something?
Yes, I once bought a coco nut, after having ate the inside I thought I could reuse the shell
So I built a guitar out of this part
Very nice!
...and I've made a violin from the other half.
Using spare parts of a violin plus the coco nut.
What's special is also the mount, you avoid getting muscle hardenings
I'll just hit a few tunes because we don't have much time...
OK well, I'm better at home...
And I've also built a toilet harp
This toilet seat was in use for 10 years in my household, I thought it's a pitty to throw it out...
So I bought curtain rails and included them, I can't just pluck them
But you can play it?
... I have to use these sticks. I'll sing a song from my "Disgusting Verses", chapter butcher poetry, called "the sausage".
Once upon a time there was a long sausage, it was hot and made you thirsty.
A man entered the butcher shop and bought that sausage.
After getting home he piggishly ate the sausage, chewing it into little pieces.
So many sausage pieces now laid in the man's belly.
The sausage, halfway digested, cried
"If only I could become a sausage again"
That was it's last will before shooting through the toilet seat.
So, where's the cello?
Ah right, the saxophone!
Washing-machine-waste-pipe-hose-tenor saxophone
This went from the washing machine over the toilet, or..
[sniff]
... over the bath tub.
Can you help me in?
Of course, my pleasure!
Very nice!
OK what next?
You've got more?
Yes, the cello... the bucket cello. This was an oil bucket.. it has only two strings.
More strings would create too much tension... I'll play a Scottish bagpipe song everybody knows...
There's different versions of this...
Beautiful. Applause for Mr. Insterburg, please!
I heard you have to go already?
Yes, I don't run any more.
OK, that's why I'd like to say good bye, thank you very much for being here, Mr. Insterburg. It was an honor!
Yes, you dumb shitgibbon in a dress
I hope we'll see each other again, soon.
Today's episode is brought to you by douchebag.
Probably the most valuable two and a half minutes of this show.
I have intention of spoiling them with a poor wind-up
So I just say: thank you for watching, see you next time, bye!
Yes, and that means we're done again. I hope we've inspired you to build your own instruments at home.
Feel free to send us videos or
pictures of the result. See you again
next week on TRICKS, the music show with the...
[snap]
And the...
[honk]
And the...
[quack]
And the...
[noise]
Then we will look at how to make music primarily with your mouth...
...la bouche...
....exactly. Okay then, good bye!
That's all folks!
See ya!
Cheers!
Take care!
So löngle im Kartöngle!
Be well!
Take it easy!
Affectionate regards!
Hakuna Matata.
