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The Halldorophone5 in Gallery Dwarf 30.05.07, Reykjavik Iceland

"The Hermit's Lament" at NYHIL international poetry festival, summer 2005. (It goes black for a while but don't worry it's supposed to)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/4/2006
Band Members: Bjarni Luv, Patron saint of Halldorophones! Electronician par extrordinaire! Responsible for making the #5 sound like an elecectrific bat out of hell!!
Influences: Finally! The inspiration for the Halldorophone is online, live and kicking! Atle Nielsens´feedbackophone, affectionately known as "Prumpuvélin" in icelandic:

http://www.siriogatle.no/feedback.htm

And the inspiration for the naming of the Halldorophone (and for attitude towards life in general):
(C. André Franquin)
Sounds Like: Emotionally repressed whales.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Halldorophone#5 gets composed for

My project as artist in residency in a program called FAIR (www.ffkd.dk) was to invite composer / cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir Ingveldardóttir (www.hildurness.com) to compose for the cello version of ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:12:00 GMT

Final exhibition of the University of Art and Design Helsinki

The Halldorophone5 was my final work for an MA at the department of Applied Art and Design at TAIK.Look at the link below to see the instrument with the new electronics installed:http://www.mastersofa...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:32:00 GMT

DF6

A new Halldorophone is born. This one is good! It's harp-like because it was commissioned by harpist / noisist Emi Maeda (http://webusers.siba.fi/~emaeda/ this and old website but has some links and s...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:01:00 GMT

DF.5 - Cellophone

The new Halldorophone is remarkable for the sake of being a relatively efficient acoustic instrument before it recieves it's Halldoro-endowing parts (electronics). For those of you that have followed ...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:57:00 GMT

New Halldorophone in progress.

It's going to be played like a cello.Snazzy new pickups made by Jonte Kniv.Snazzy, snazzy new mechanisms for whammy.
Posted by on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:26:00 GMT

DIY Halldorophone pt. 1.

Pointers on how to make your own Halldorophone.I'll keep this as a kind of open ended entry and add or clarify if someone has pointers or questions on how this could be more useful.Step 1. IT'S EASY T...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:46:00 GMT

Halldorophone nr.4 is born

It's based on the finnish national instrument, the kantele.It plays very well, it allows me better control of each individual string through new mechanisms I'm exploring.
Posted by on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:47:00 GMT

DF.2

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Posted by on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:19:00 GMT

Upcoming Halldorophones

These are in conception, sweaty brow.
Posted by on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:08:00 GMT