Here are some photos of my projects. It’s a mostly random collection I’ve put together over time.
My massive Junkyard Music Box installation at Art Prize in 2012. The drum acts like a giant piano roll, playing the bells above. Or it could be played via MIDI with my keyboard. See my video page for a sample of the instrument in action.
A bird's eye view of my 2012 Art Prize installation of the Junkyard Music Box.
A toolbox glockenspiel. Some discarded wrenches and bolts made into an instrument. See our video page for a sample tune.
Four instruments, all tuned to a C major scale, so they can be played together, at the Charlevoix Michigan Public Library Children's Garden. From left to right; Slap Tubes, KinderBells, an Amadinda (xylophone), and a Lithophone.
With my grand daughter, in front of a KinderBells installation. at the Sensory Garden in the Botanical Gardens of Traverse City, Michigan"s Grand Traverse Commons.
The first visitor after I installed my first set of KinderBells in front of the Grand Rapids Public Museum for ArtPrize 2013
A single flower bell
Getting interviewed about my KinderBells at Grand Rapid's 2013 ArtPrize.
Superman, playing The Music Go Round, a circular lithopone fence, in front of the Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum at ArtPrize 2014.
ArtPrize 2014, the Music Go Round in front of the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum.
The words to "Row Row Row Your Boat" were etched into the granite. Life is But a Dream
The Music Go Round, set up in my front yard for the first time prior to ArtPrize 2014
Doing the musical math
A budding musician, playing a scrap-wood xylophone at ArtPrize 2012
One of my granite and steel lithophones, at the Garoon Gateway to Science
My first Lithophone installation at Raven Hill Discovery Center in 2009. It is C Major scale, with an additional C6 and D6
Another granite lithophone.. This one is at a special needs center in Taiwan
A Tile-a-Phone, a lithophone made from granite floor tile . Part of the collection at Princeton University's Children's Library
Our next great percussionist, playing a lithophone made with granite strips. Grand Rapids' Art Prize 2012
Listening Tubes at The Garoon Gateway to Science in Lake Zurich, Illinois. Children can place their ear to the ends of the tube, and hear a specific frequency of ambient sound amplified, much like listening to a sea shell
One of my friction harps, made from aluminum rods.
Demonstrating a friction harp for students in Waterford Ireland for the 2009 Imagine Arts Festival.
Piano Desk Music Work Station 1998
A Bird in the Hand.. Do you know what it's worth? One of my pandemic projects was purchasing a CabKing stone polishing machine, and leaning how to polish and shape my Petoskey stones
The Chinese call these "bao-ding" balls. I made these by hand, without a sphere shaping machine.
This sphere and it's base are made of Stromatoporoid, a fossilized sea sponge from 350 million years ago
This is Favosite, also called Charlevoix Stone, another fossilized colony coral from the Devonian Age
My Favorite Favosite or Charlevoix stone, with a quartz inclusion. We named this stone "The Eye of God"
The fifth "Walk of Grace" installed along a forest path on a private estate in North Carolina.
Single Golden Flower on a weathered steel stand, at Three Pines Gallery 2023
Weathered Steel Flower Bell
Automated Lithophone and Mini Midi Piano. Various polished fossil pieces
Creating opportunities for everyone and anyone to make music. I strive to make music simple, interactive, and fun.
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Creating opportunities for everyone and anyone to make music. I strive to make music simple, interactive, and fun. —