Stringed Stirrups

For best sound, please use good speakers or headphones! Those good low notes don't come through on small computer speakers...
here, I briefly explain how I got the idea to the Stringed Stirrups, in front of a recording from Oslo Impro '97.
Then, a clip where I perform the Stringed Stirrups at MAF/Ungdomens Hus on Högriskfestivalen, Malmö, march 2003.
The Stringed Stirrups (formerly called the Angel Strings) have (like another of my instruments, the butter bass) loose piano strings going through loops on a resonator - the resonator is tied around my chest. I am giving tension to the two strings standing in the lower end stirrups, thus hanging suspended from the ceiling in the strings. It is played with two bows and specially made wooden beaters. Sometimes the longitudinal vibrations of the strings are excited with rosined gloves. It is amplified with a contact microphone.
More photos, sounds, info at http://bergmark.org/​stirrups

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[raindog951]

Love that deep resonant roar. Have to see it live to get the full effect I imagine.