Ballast string
The ballast string (Engl. Fiber string ) is a combined musical instrument . A metal body that is struck or painted hangs on a string . The sound is amplified by a drum . The instrument is mostly used in experimental music and also in music therapy .
Origin and design
The ballast string was developed by the sculptor Paul Fuchs in the mid-1970s ; an approximately one meter long heavy metal rod - the " ballast " - hangs on a long, thin steel string several meters long, which is stretched by the weight of the body. This steel string, in turn, is suspended in the middle of a drum membrane as large as possible according to the principle of a cord friction drum. The frame drum hung horizontally on the ceiling or on a tripod acts as a resonance body for the string inserted in the middle.
use
Friedrich Gulda used the ballast string in his collaboration with Limpe Fuchs ( Trinity I, II ). Limpe Fuchs wrote a. a. the composition Bifurcation - for three ballast strings , which was premiered in 2005 in the Realtime Hall in Munich. The ballast string u. a. also by Stephan Micus , Klaus Kugel and the improvisation band Gluttermueck .
Discographic notes
- Limpe Fuchs, Christoph Heemann , Timo van Luijk : Macchia Forest (Streamline, 2013)
Web links
- Ballast string - definition, description, function, origin of the musical instrument. Lexicon of musical instruments
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ballast string at EMU Ensemble
- ↑ Andreas Delor: New Music and anthroposophy . Ch. Möllmann, 2009
- ↑ Helga De la Motte-Haber: Klangkunst - Volume 1 , 1996 - page 58
- ^ Wilhelm Svoboda: Friedrich Gulda: Fragments of a portrait . Ed. Art & Science, 2006
- ↑ Steve Freeman, Alan Freeman: The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany . Audion, 1996.
- ↑ Limpe Fuchs website
- ↑ http://www.echtzeithalle.de/?id=104&cat=sci
- ↑ Stephan Micus at ECM ( Memento from March 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Klaus Kugel's website
- ↑ Gluttermueck at SoundCloud