Hatikva on Hydraulophone

[captainTubes]

1:10 Resonant chord :D

[EvannRachel]

How lovely!

[evilkanival1423]

wheres is this?

[hydraulist]

@evilkanival1423 Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, out in front of the building, it runs 24 hours a day.

[iheartseptimusheap]

Awesome

[debuftea]

Check out "Carul cu boi" and we'll talk where Hatikva derives from!!

Anyway , impressive instrument!

[hydraulist]

@debuftea "Carul cu boi" is listed on the Wikipedia page for Hatikva... Romanian folk song Carriage with Oxen.  Before that, it originated as an Italian song, by Giuseppino del Biado ca. 1600... Later known in early 17th-century Italy as "Ballo di Mantova." ... used by the Czech composer Bedich Smetana as "Die Moldau" (from the Wikipedia page), and often appears in windup music boxes titled simply "Moldau". One of my favorite songs for playing on hydraulophone...

[hydraulist]

@hydraulist Other similar songs that use a similar pitch changes, i.e. combination of consonance and stepwise pitch changes, in a minor key: "Swan Lake" (main theme) by Tchaikovsky, "A Tragic Story" (words by William Makepeace Thackeray, music by???), and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (composer unknown), and to some extent, "Tarantella Dance" (not quite stepwise but almost).

[Ynysmydwr]

@hydraulist The musical setting of "A Tragic Story" (words by William Makepeace Thackeray) is by Benjamin Britten.

[Gh3ttO7]

Hahahhahha

[muttiwilson]

This sounds like a Scandinavian hymn. What is the song?

[muttiwilson]

haha, i didnt even read the info:)

[FrauleinFive]

@muttiwilson

Israel's national anthem. You were a bit off on the guess.

[elijahthefreak]

were is that I REALLY WANNA TRY IT IT LOOKS COOLLLL

[hydraulist]

This hydraulophone is the main centerpiece out in front of the Ontario Science Centre, located at 770 Don Mills Road (near the intersection of Don Mills and Eglington), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[SearchFindNowMine]

That sounds ridiculously similar to an ocarina.

[marcoxmeijer]

Well, this instrument is like a woodwind, that's what the uploader says, so it makes sense.

And both instruments are vessel instruments.

The chords are very different of coarse. I can't do those on my ocarinas. Perhaps if I put them all in my mouth at the same time :P

I just found a sheet, so I'm gonna learn it on my focalinks.

[WuvableKel]

wow nice, how does this work? =o

[xenexe]

very cool very nice XD 5/5 soothing XD

[EmoCookieGurl]

do you have to own this instrument? bcuz it lokos like its just in a part where everyone can use it...

[ABunnyOnFire]

Dude... i NEED to look up all the cool instruments in teh world!!! =D

[jazltalz]

wow! that's hard to do, it's like spending 40 years in prison.

[RandomDano]

mmmm.... wwooww

[freewaytav]

this is for the kind of musician that likes to get wet

[Teh1337Pirate]

This looks like it's just in the middle of a park. Is this instrument just out in the open or do you actually own it?

[aeopmusic]

You can actually produce the same sound without the water; it's not neccessary. What you're hearing is air coming out of the instrument, not the water. By covering up the holes, you regulate the water's pressure/spacial-volume in the basin of the instrument which respectively regulates the air-pressure/volume in the instrument which causes the vibrations/sound.

[hydraulist]

Yes, no two sound the same, but you can also vary the sound a great deal by how you put your fingers on the mouths. If you finger the edges of a mouth it sounds much different than putting your finger at the center of a mouth, so when playing a chord, you can get different members of the chord to each sound very different. Also the sound depends alot on the water pressure, flow rate, temperature, and other factors that act globally across all the mouths.

[vortexxman]

It seems like no two hydraulophones sound identical. Or maybe that's my misperception

[hanzecercheek]

I've never heard of a hydraulophone. That's a beautiful sound.

[aresxp]

That is an amazing instrument. Thanks :)

[accordionmusic]

I've never seen this instrument in my life. It is ...very unreal...Thanks

[hydraulist]

I spend a lot of my life inside Virtual Reality headsets, and computer-mediated reality, so I find there's actually something very "real" about water, like jumping into an ocean is an experience you can't simulate on computerized eyeglasses because it's very tactile. Hydraulophone feels very "real" with the tactile action of the water, etc..

If you're ever in the Toronto area, you might want to see the world's largest hydraulophone, in front of Ontario Science Centre; it runs 24 hours/day....

[sherilyn222]

What Is the Fingering Chart??

[hydraulist]

Fingering chards for hydraulophone consist of a row of holes showing which part of each hole is covered at each time. It's hard to express that in ASCII text, but maybe something like if you're playing in Aminor:

Am with 0_._., then _0, then o_0_., then ___0, then o_o_0, then rest with ._._., then ._._0, then Dm with o__o_0, then .___0, then o__o_0, then .__._._0, then o_o_0, etc..,

[hydraulist]

Also I wrote the fingering list for the first part of the song in Aminor which is easier to write than the key that I actually played in (Dminor). An Aminor, I've put the letters starting at the first diatonic hole, A, and continuing, e.g.,

ABCDEFGH

o_o_0___

where "_" denotes no finger on that hole;

"." denotes touch your finger into only the bottom edge of the hole, "o" denotes block some of the water, and "0" denotes block all of the water, all the way around the whole hole.

[hydraulist]

Also, there are 26 diatonic holes,

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ which are the notes

ABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDE

so for example, "Z" denotes the highest "E", and A, H, O, and V, are the "A" notes going up one octave at a time. The semitone jets are called by flats rather than sharps, e.g. Zb for the highest E-flat note, rather than calling it Y#.

[hydraulist]

So the melody is: ABCDE_E, FEFHE, ...

and the harmelody (overlapping harmony and melody) is as indicated above, using an approximation to "hole note notation".

See wearcam (dot) org/hydraulophone/music/

[sherilyn222]

I Don't Get It...

[hydraulist]

As an example of hydraulophone fingering, see

wearcam.

org/oscfuntain/southnessie_les­son_twinkle/

[hydraulist]

let me know if you follow the explanation on that website, or if i can be of any other help explaining the above fingering as well.

[sherilyn222]

What I Thought It Was, Was: oooooooooooooooooooooooooo oo ooo oo ooo oo ooo oo oo A Was The Last, B Was The Next, C Was The Next, etc. I Thought That That One Jet = 1 Note.

------------------------------­-------------- EDCBAGFEDCBAGFEDCBAGFEDCBA = oooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[hydraulist]

Yes, one jet is one note, so if you want to play a chord like A-minor, you block A, C, and E at the same time. Now if you want to play an A minor with emphasis on A, i.e. what I call "harmelody" (harmony and melody intertwined), you play mostly A with a little bit of C and E, which I denote

0_o_o, using hole-note notation, etc.. Let me know if you follow this.

[sherilyn222]

If I'm Correct With The Top Neutral Notes And The Bottoms Are Sharps And Flats, What Are They?

[hydraulist]

Yes, the holes closes to you, when you are in playing position, are the natural notes. The leftmost note is always an "A", and there are 26 natural notes, ABCDEFGabcde... which you can also label A to Z if you prefer. The holes further from you (in playing position) in groups of twos and threes, are for sharps and flats.

[malonbu]

zomg, i've never even seen that before! O_O In my intire life! is it new? xDDD

[hydraulist]

The hydraulophone is a relatively new invention (invented in Canada in the 1980s). This particular hydraulophone installation is relatively new (she's been running for just a couple of years now, and is presently going through her second Canadian winter).

[NiNJack]

omg i didnt know such a beautiful musical instrument existed, with one of my favorite pieces of music

[hydraulist]

Interestingly the water flow was really low that day, so the instrument was soft and quiet. I think the low water flow suits the peaceful soothing nature of this song. Even less water flow: watch?v=svRMdVqtSpo

However, I've also heard some good renditions of the song on electric guitar, so I tried it on a hydraulophone hooked to a guitar amplifier (from underwater micropone-based pickup), watch?v=Tic6IlZCmsI (playing in an

underwater cave).