To celebrate the launch of the two new NeoKitsch albums, “Etherwaves”, and “Continuum Fingers”, here is Danny playing a piece of sliced bread.
The slice of bread and the interaction with it, demonstrates the feel and sound of Lippold Haken’s fantastic instrument, the Continuum Fingerboard, which has a similar soft touch surface. If anyone is interested in the Continuum Fingerboard, the album “Continuum Fingers” is a collection just for the Continuum, which includes seventeen quirky tracks inspired by modern jazz, electronica, classical and film music. “Continuum Fingers” uses the inbuilt sounds for the Haken Continuum Fingerboard designed by Edmund Eagan.

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Here is a little taste of the jamming sessions at the NeoKitsch studio, which later amounted to the release of the new Haken Continuum Fingerboard album, “Continuum Fingers”, available to download from iTunes, Amazon mp3, Napster, Rhapsody and eMusic.

This improvisation has a slight Middle Eastern sound to it, with Danny Hahn, David Way and Angela Caesar at the NeoKitsch studio.

NeoKitsch is proud to release an album with music for the Haken Continuum Fingerboard: “Continuum Fingers”. The album includes seventeen quirky tracks inspired by modern jazz, electronica, classical and film music. “Continuum Fingers” uses the inbuilt sounds for the Haken Continuum Fingerboard designed by Edmund Eagan. Click on the image below to listen to extracts of the album and to purchase and download tracks.

This video demonstrates the sounds you can produce with Edmund Eagan’s wonderful internal instruments on Lippold Haken’s Continuum Fingerboard.

This is a short improvisation using the Continuum Fingerboard’s internal sounds and a theremin sound controlled by midi. The Omnichord was modified by Folktek, one of my favourite circuit bending artists. This piece was improvised with the films of Jim Jarmusch in mind…the kind of films I would love to compose for.

Things That Go Bump

“Things That Go Bump” is a collection of outrageous, weird and damn right silly musical experimentations. This time, the NeoKitsch studio brought together the combination of modern classical music styles, with avant garde film and electronic music. The Trumpet, Viola, Violin, Haken Continuum Fingerboard, Etherwave Theremin, Moog Synthesizers and Bass Guitar are just a fraction of the live instruments used to record this collection. 

All tracks were recorded live in the NeoKitsch Studio.

You can check out what some of these very recordings looked like on the NeoKitsch YouTube channel. Here is one of the videos showing Danny Hahn and David Way at work:

And here is another video demonstrating some of the unusual, one of a kind instruments in the NeoKitsch studio:

Filmmakers and Content Creators will find that these unusual tracks will really make a stamp on their work.  

Click on the banner below to listen to all 20 Avant Garde tracks:

Check out the new NeoKitsch album:

This is David Way and Danny Hahn in the NeoKitsch studio trying out the new AKG C414 microphone with the violin, Roland MC-808, Folktek Modified Omnichord and the Haken Continuum Fingerboard. This piece was an improvisation commissioned by the online music library and networking community: Humtoo, in which they requested NeoKitsch to produce an experimental, ‘musical FX’ and avant garde album for their store. Here is a link to another album Humtoo has produced for NeoKitsch: 

“I’ve been watching this talented and extremely amiable man from Japan for many months on YouTube. He makes Ocarinas with almost anything, although vegetables are his speciality. Heita only speaks in his mother tongue on his videos, but he mentions briefly in English writing that “I make vegetables musical instrument. Because I have gone to work in daytime, I do not have enough free time. I am playing the vegetable musical instruments on holiday.”

His wife and daughter often appear in his videos, accompanying his Ocarina jingles on the piano and teasing their pet cat and dog, so it appears that part of his success comes from his ‘family man‘, and ‘must be cool to have a dad like that‘ aura. Perhaps the best examples of Heita’s talents can be seen in the videos below, where in one, he demonstrates how to make an Ocarina with an egg, and the other, a display of different vegetable Ocarinas. 

I hope you enjoy Heita as much as I do!”

How to make an egg ocarina

“I made an ocarina with an egg. I show how to make.”

Introduction of handmade vegetable musical instruments

“I introduce the vegetable musical instruments made this time. There are eight kinds of vegetable musical instruments. Please enjoy various sound”

Here is Heita’s own translation of what he is saying in the video above:

“Then, let’s introduce the vegetable musical instruments that can have been done this time. 
It is a carrot ocarina first. 
And, it is an ocarina of a white radish in Japan that can have done this time. 
The octave is geted down from the carrot ocarina. 
The broccoli ocarina was made. 
A good sound is not heard because only such a broccoli was obtained this time. And, a carrot ocarina of the slide type and this carrot ocarina is different the sound hole. When the breath is put here, something is heard. It shaped ..so… 

The paprika was punctured. When the breath is put here, such a sound is heard. It is an owl. Carrot panpipe. When the breath is put in this, such a sound is heard. Similary asparagus panpipe was made. However, a good sound is not heard. It is a trumpet of the cucumber and the paprika in the end. There were musical instruments that looked alike also in the vegetable orchestra. Moreover, when musical instruments can be done, I introduces it.

Thank you“