megabass waterphone demonstration

[riseup20twelve]

tap it hit it rattle it..so much you can do with it..

[IxImetal4lifeIxI]

i NEED this.

[alexar1979]

Greate stuff for dark ambient.

[Ciaran55]

really strange yet unique sound, thanks for demonstrating this instrument

[sKwYzZzz]

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[DocSicnarf]

I'm really high right now and this is tripping me out a little.

[Volker400]

Highly interesting sound!! SOunds partially like electronical, although it's nature! Absolutely brilliant!!! Thanks so much for posting!!

[DonaldHellsing]

Gah these are so awesome. I want one but they're too expensive D:

[ER160990C]

that thing is so alien sounding

[inkkHD]

deadrising main menu screen anyone?

[coelhoigor]

That is one nasty wig...

Marvelous instrument though. Just got me into instrument building!

[borowczyk76]

Anyone want to lend me 1500$ so I can buy one of these? Pretty please?

[Slipnotes]

Would create some pretty scary stuff with this....hmmm

[MikeHall683]

press 9 for nightmares

[formerlycheebo]

Keep these away from whale hunters at all costs

[tritonobionico]

I really, really, really, really like the sounds.

[ElMostroBloggeante]

that's the Fcking sound of the MATRIX!!!

[speedkleaver]

please richard we need to hear an orchestra of these! :)

[captainlinalalaine]

looks and sounds like LOST :D

[osowagora]

Now I know where came those sounds in Matrix! Thanks

[DjKeeper]

@osowagora believe it or not, but i saw them recording the soundtrack and they did play it on strings.

[intigfx]

Waterphone played by Mr Waters. Nice.

[lukagerm]

sounds like st:tmp

[youre2killable]

i

have never

seen something

quite as stupid as this .

[BullToTheShit]

@youre2killable Don't think of it as a musical instrument, think of it as a sound-effects device. That's what it was extensively used as during the 1970's, especially in mystery dramas (like the tv show "Columbo").

[youre2killable]

@BullToTheShit hmn , thats right though ....

it actually reminds me quite a bit of movie sound effects ....

thx

[nobodady1]

I met Mr. Waters in the early nineties. My friend purchased one of his waterphones and I had the unforgetable experience of a performance in the ocean, in which dolphins were attracked to the sounds and added their own.

[waterphoneman]

@nobodady1 - Others have also experience dolphins and other cetacean being attracted to the sound of the Waterphone. Jim Nollman of >Interspecies Communication< was the first to take a waterphone into the ocean and call these mammals.  A photo of him doing this is on my web site at waterphone site.

[nobodady1]

@waterphoneman Thanks for responding. My friend is the guitarist, Scott Huckabay. We performed together in Hawai'i. That is where I met you --- on the Big Island. What a lovely class of instruments you have designed. I will check out your site for more info.

[waterphoneman]

@nobodady1 Ah yes, Hawaii, how I miss it but shipping materials in and waterphones and other instruments out was so expensive and time consuming. Give Scott my best. Richard

[nobodady1]

@waterphoneman If I run across Mr. Huckabay I will be sure to. He tours around here every 5 years or so, I think. I'm not in Hawai'i any more. I miss it, but, strangely, I'm happier living in New England. Your waterphone was central to an experience I will never forget, and that I repeat often. But hearing it is better than my stories about it.

[VICTORIAVIIA]

this makes me relax... so peaceful heaven music <333

[waterphoneman]

@VICTORIAVIIA

Thank you for your positive comment. Richard

[barbelmeister]

LOST anyone? Expect a monster to come rushing through the bamboo... or just John Locke.

[intheoryanddemo]

I own an original one, and they are so fun to play. There is nothing like it! Also saw them featured at the Pacific Symphony, in a concert that premiered other compositions having to do with water. I am not even an official percussionist, so it really should have a better home. Not that I want to part with it...

[8krlx8]

this is perfect for survival horror games

[deathcore1239]

@8krlx8 think they used it in F.E.A.R 1-3?

[8krlx8]

@deathcore1239 I know quite little about that game. But I've heard those sounds in Amnesia and Silent Hill. (I used google-translate).

[cornicello]

Very, very cool!!!

It's a bit unpredictable, which is what makes it wonderful.

[cornicello]

Very, very cool!!!

It's a bit unpredictable, which is what makes it wonderful.

[fstball4110]

sounds nice but the truth is that these sounds can be achieved with modern synthesis... even virtual synthesis. not worth the money.

[waterphoneman]

@fstball4110 Playig an acoustic instrument is quite a bit different that synthesis and unless you own one of my waterphones I think maybe you no not of where you speak.

[waterphoneman]

@fstball4110 Playig an acoustic instrument is quite a bit different that synthesis and unless you own one of my waterphones I think maybe you know not of where you speak. Expensive yes, worth it yes.

[deathcore1239]

ok, now what if you take a vibrating dildo to it?

[Ryzer182]

sounds like left4dead music :L

[craigwithington]

I've wanted one of these for years but they're too gosh darned expensive!

[kossakhoucharmouta]

SINISTRE.

[waterphoneman]

@kossakhoucharmouta - It can be many things and sinister is one of them.

[TheRebasMom]

To be a bit picky --where is the water? Did he change his name, like John Denver?

Thank you Mr. Waters for playing for us, and you theyare58 for posting.

[waterphoneman]

@TheRebasMom - !/4 cup of distilled water is in the interior (out of sight). No did not change my name and had I named this instrument after me it would have been called >Watersphone< not waterphone. And you are welcome. Richard

[funnyav]

This remind anyone of the creepy background sounds in The Matrix?

[waterphoneman]

@funnyav - Yes, it was used in the Matrix and other films not always scary horror.

[headthroughawindow]

@funnyav yes. i figured this is almost like what they used to make it!

[koksi1234]

@funnyav This instrument was used in The Matrix :)

[chillincello]

This is pretty scary!O.0

[leflipmo]

Basic instrument for thrillers and horror films.

[industrialm]

i need one of this, i will havbe to make one on my one :T

[nenbran]

This is possibly one of the coolest instruments I've ever seen and heard.

[swarm69]

i think it sounds prety bad ass it would be a great fx instrument for compasition

[LukeLegere]

this is fucking retarded

[0362868]

@LukeLegere  no Luke, YOU are retarded

[LukeLegere]

@0362868 it sounds terrible

[0362868]

@LukeLegere No, music is a big umbrella and you will find the waterphone and the mocking bird song and people screaming on a roller coaster here as well. Dig it, my friend. Open your young mind. Ray Charles once said "to be hip is to be open."

[Chuggbert]

@0362868 Poetry, my friend. This is beautiful.

[waterphoneman]

I would like to point out that there is a person parading as an expert in both playing and answering questions about the waterphone on YouTube. The device he is playing is an imitation knock off and many of his answers are incorrect and self serving so take what he says with several grains of salt.

[vgermuse]

If you are interested in obtaining samples of this very instrument at a very reasonable price go to the waterphone web page of Richard Waters, inventor of the waterphone.

[acidfriend47]

Where do you buy that instrument?

[waterphoneman]

@acidfriend47

Go to waterphone com.

[waterphoneman]

No, I have not as it is difficult enough tuning them as I current do.

[Sloe1427]

ever make one tuned to Solfeggio scale?

[jerrbear85]

excellent.

[SquallPwnLife]

fascinating

[waterphoneman]

Like all families of instruments, larger waterphones can produce more bass responses and have a wider range of sounds. The MegaBass is the largest hand

held waterphone and has an amazing range of sounds. RW.

[lietz13]

I don't understand the difference between the sound from a megabass and any other waterphone.  They all seem to be pretty much the same, awesome sound.

[waterphoneman]

@lietz13 - You have to hear them to know them but they are very different from each other or else I would only be making one model.

[waterphoneman]

@lietz13 The size makes a difference as if they all sounded the same I would only be making one model. To hear them is to know them.

[powertrust71]

type in.... scorpio`s view lalo schifrin..for an example ove this instrament in a arrangment...

[jimblackler]

What an extraordinary instrument. It's fantastic to see it played, because it looks like it sounds; intriguing and totally unique.

Listening to it played, each phrase seems to bring a memory of a horror or suspense movie to mind. It is truly a sound to bring shivers to the spine.

[tysonbangham]

idiots

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

WHen I read the name in the videos description I misread it twice firs as roger waters then as richard wright, this leads me to believe that the person in the video is love child of thoose to members of pink floyd

[waterphoneman]

No, wrong. I was the love child of a bamboo nympho goddess

in Northern California and a one night stand with some traveling be-bop musicians in an out of body experience.

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

then where'd he get his name from :s

[waterphoneman]

He? you mean me or the waterphone. If me, my parents, if waterphone, because of the water.

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

I mean the person playing the water phone, Richard Waters.

[waterphoneman]

I am the person playing the waterphone.

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

Holy crap! That was the best plot twist ever......So did you ever relise that your name was a combination of two members of Pink floyd's names?

[waterphoneman]

No.

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

So would you say that I opened your eyes to a whole new world?

[waterphoneman]

Hardly

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

dissapointment :(

[powertrust71]

@waterphoneman you might be my brother..my father was a minstral with a flavour for be-bop,travelled through cali alot...But he held a weakness for the bottle...

[waterphoneman]

Powertrust!  My long lost or unknown brother!

I hope you play music.

[powertrust71]

@waterphoneman yes indeed sir..1 guitar...i find myself luring people to my house who also play guitar,just so i can play with them..lol...

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

Just ruin my entire set up thanks alot powertrust

[powertrust71]

@UPSID3downPRODUCTION sorry sir..

[UPSID3downPRODUCTION]

Its okay I'll forgive you cause you called me sir and I'm a 15 year old kid and I find that funny

[NuclearLullaby]

The guy playing in this video is actually the guy that invented the Waterphone!

[mightykyle]

Think weird naked Indian!

[12splot]

is this what they use for they metallic screechy sound in horror films??

[keem85m]

Check out Thomas Dybdahl - Still my body aches...

Is this that kind of instrument as in this song? sounds the same to me

[TheSeig3]

The Water Song? Aerosmith?

[Epim3theus]

this is an amazing instrument, i love how many sounds you can create with it

[DamonIcke]

It probably won't be considered real music by the masses until Puff Daddy samples a waterphone in one of his songs.

[IblesjunkieMrMcCoy]

Naww dude, you've got it ass-backwards, it won't ever be considered music afterwords if Diddy even goes near one.

[ThePiano1991]

Its more of an effect to be used in music, to create suspense! Its used in load of modern orchestral works.

[AlexakaTorsken]

This is an instrument for making creepy-movie-sounds i guess? Doesn't seem to be able to play any music with it.

[Ezekielpurger]

or to call whales with

[nepalnt21]

i mean... that guy was just playing music, so clearly it can

[GrooveCameli]

Anything that makes sound can be used to play music.

[crossharps]

What is absolutely the most fascinating instrument I've ever seen! And I play cross-strung harp, so that's saying something!

[NunyaDBusiness1]

As a kid I used to explore abandoned factories and woods. If I heard these sounds it would have scared the crap outta me.

[Talvegue]

what an awesome sound this thing has... want one

[verschrikelijkzeike]

helemaal gestoord

[waterphoneman]

My waterphones have been used successfully on a number of occasions to call whales and other Cetaceans.

[nerdyharry]

@waterphoneman wow

[dahedgefox]

@waterphoneman That's really amazing that you were able to call whales! I've always thought the eerie sounds of he waterphone--and whales--were utterly fascinating. :)

[waterphoneman]

@dahedgefox The first person to use a waterphone for calling Whales was Jim Nollman of Interspecies Communication back in the late 70s. Since then a number of people have call in dolphins, Orcas and other Cetaceans. There is a hand bowing technique that is used for this purpose.

[osowagora]

@waterphoneman Like inland? That's like insanely cool!

[ThePiano1991]

Ahh so beautiful!

Is this the instrument that provides the spooky and eerie sounds in film music?

Where can I buy one?

[paralasalud]

doesn't dave king from the bad plus use one of these?

[ZeppelinRochey]

thats the best instrument ever!

[samuelshepard]

yeysh

[matt1001magic]

i dont recommend playing this with a hang over

[officiallycertified]

the low notes sounded like blue whales...cool!!!

i know no music and i don't know how to distinguish between organized notes that creates music or scrambled tones that create rock noise (for others)...but this sure souded nice and i like it.

[xylodrummer]

At 1:00, sounded like whales singing/talking..very cool instrument. Thanks for the post.

[waterphoneman]

The waterphone has been used successfully to call whales and other Cetecean. Check out Jim Nollman and Interspecies Communication.

[chriskwheels]

reminds me of the matrix at times for some reason

[abigorswhispers]

Yeah like at 1:39 +. The are sounds like this in the movies. Maybe from a waterphone !

[waterphoneman]

A waterphone was used on the Matrix.

[waterphoneman]

This was a demonstration of the waterphone and not intended to be a piece of music.

[Rawd1976]

very interesting sound!

[emoboi1031]

it's like scary movie noise, not music. it looks like a pizza dish with metal spikes coming off of it.

[mattleemattlee123]

Bowed wind chimes. Fun toy, not music.

[meshlife88]

Music, whether it is Mozart or this or rap or whatever, is simply organized noise. Or one type, I should say. I personally would classify this as a type of ambient music. IMO.

[waterphoneman]

Again - this was simply a demonstration of the range of the MegaBass Waterphone and not a piece of music.

[AlvinZalvin]

that makes me crazy...

[camilleg101]

thats intense

[waterphoneman]

Gene didn't have to steal them as he hired all the L.A. percussionist who had purchased waterphones from me.

[waterphoneman]

OK, I am ready when you are.  Richard Waters, inventor of the waterphone

[dwoodman87]

So this is where Gene Roddenberry stole all of his sounds from...

[stackattack]

Is that like a really soft rubber xylophone mallet he uses on the bottom? that would be my guess, but anybody know for sure?

anyway, thats absolutely amazing

[waterphoneman]

Yes, I know as I am the maker. Superball mallets on a bamboo shaft that has been carved into something akin to spring steel.

[GuyMagicFingers]

I wonder if he can play anything light and gay from the Sound of Music? ;-)

[waterphoneman]

Probably not from the Sound of Music but surely light and gay. Each time you play a waterphone you are playing a brand new melody.

[kongkongkongcrazylll]

haunted

[yidneth]

This is absolutely amazing... i've heard it so many times without knowing what it was... i've archieves similar sounds recording some houses old pipes... but having this for the stage would be just so amazing

[jugglingmonk]

Awesome.

[sonicoutlaw]

I believe the phrase is 'Masters At Work'.