Flutterbye Five: detail
Too Lips
Washers (moths) flutter down threaded rods with turns affecting rhythms. Resonators color pieces uniquely.
Fayfer Harp
This instrument creates wonderful whistling (a fayfer is an incessant whistler) and plucking sounds.
Performance Installation at the U of Illinois
Too Lips, Too Flutter (right), Shmoos Harp (center)
Too Flutter: foreground
Moths course over twisted rods with resonators released using long nylon lines in performance.
Performance Installation at the U of Illinois
Bass Shmoos (hanging) and other instruments before a performance at the Krannert Center, 1992.