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  Baschet Brothers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Baschet Brothers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Baschet Brothers, Francois and Bernard, a sculptor and an engineer, respectively, collaborate on creating sound sculptures and inventing instruments.
Their visually striking instruments are crafted out of steel and aluminum and amplified by large curved conical sheets of metal, and are most often easy to play and accessible to people with any level of experience.
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Bernard, a sculptor and an engineer, respectively, collaborate on creating sound sculptures and inventing
Beginning in 1952 the Baschets started research into all existing musical instruments and put this knowledge to work in creating dozens of "structures sonores" ('sonorous sculptures').
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 Baschet Brothers - Musical Fountain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Brothers Bernard and Francois are mid-century masters who work together to produce a series of structures sonore: indoor and outdoor sculptural works that incorporate sound, such as windmills, clocks, and fountains.
The Baschet's underlying philosophy is that an ideal artwork produces something.
The Baschet Brothers' work vacillates between sculpture and instrument.
www.davidbermant.com /exhibits/gallery2/baschetbrothers.htm   (122 words)

  
 Passion River - International Distribution - Baschet
For over fifty years, the French born Baschet brothers created amazing and eccentric acoustic musical sculptures using industrial materials such as sheet metal, glass rods, and water.
Baschet: The Transfiguration of Daily Life presents candid interviews with the Baschets near the height of their fame in 1963 and footage of the brothers and other composers playing the unique instruments.
Baschet encompasses the brothers’ beliefs, that public participation is crucial to the vitality of the fine arts, with footage from international public exhibitions in New York, France, and Expo ’70 in Tokyo.
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 Baschet Brothers - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Baschet Brothers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Baschet Brothers - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Baschet Brothers.
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 Dionne, Vincent
On a grant from the Canada Council he studied 1969-70 with Jacques Delécluse at the Paris Cons.
He also worked 1970-1 with the Groupe de recherches musicales de l'ORTF and 1971-3 at the Centre américain in Paris with the Baschet brothers, inventors of the Structures sonores Lasry-Baschet.
During this time he played percussion with the Pasdeloup Orchestra, accompanied Mikis Theodorakis on a European tour in 1971, and played in Vienna and Hanover with the Groupe international de musique électroacoustique de Paris.
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But in the Cristal Baschet, the vibration of the glass is passed on to the heavy block of metal by a metal stem whose variable length determines the frequency (the note).
Amplification is obtained by fiberglass cones fixed on wood and by a tall cut out metal part, in the shape of a flame.
The BASCHET brothers' aim was to get closer to the new tones born in the early fifties.
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 François Baschet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The sound sculptor François Baschet, of the Baschet Brothers, was born in Paris in 1920.
He studied sculpture, and, independently, acoustics, and works with his brother Bernard Baschet.
This page was last modified 23:33, 5 May 2005.
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 ASA 141st Meeting Lay Language Papers -New and Unusual Percussion Instruments
His tuned "cloud chamber" bowls, shown in are actually cut from acid carboys, while his mazda marimba consists of light bulbs of various sizes.
Instruments of the Baschet brothers--Bernard and François Baschet have built several unusual percussion instruments using familiar sources of vibration such as strings, rods, and bars.
Another resonator used in the Baschets' instruments are spring steel wires, which they call "whiskers." They are generally between 60 and 100 cm in length, and a large number of whiskers of varying length are attached to the body of an instrument.
www.acoustics.org /press/141st/rossing1.html   (1069 words)

  
 Baschet Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Presents the inventive work of two French brothers, François and Bernard Baschet, creators of unusual, elegant sound sculptures and musical instruments.
Not content with making work which would only be seen in galleries, the Baschets initiated educational music programs for children and the disabled, in addition to holding worldwide exhibitions and performances.
With conviction and humor, the Baschets express their guiding belief that creativity and public participation within the arts are fundamental ways of transforming our lives and the world around us.
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The Cristal Baschet (not Cristal Bachet, but sometimes called Crystal Organ and in English, Crystal Baschet) is composed of 54 chromatically tuned glass rods, rubbed with wet fingers.
Born at the same time as «musique concrete» (Pierre SCHAEFFER, Pierre HENRY…), electro-acoustic music and early synthesizers (MOOG…), the Cristal Baschet is their close relative, but completely acoustic, without any electric amplifying-device.
The Cristal Baschet is used in a lot of fields : ballet-music, songs, movie music, theater-music, jazz, rock, improvisation, tales, contemporary music.
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 Bernard Baschet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The sound sculptor Bernard Baschet (of the Baschet Brothers was born in Paris in 1917.
He studied engineering and works with his brother Francois Baschet.
This page was last modified 21:34, 5 May 2005.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bernard_Baschet   (79 words)

  
 Musicmuseum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A selfmade instrument, built after the principle of the Baschet brothers.
That sond membrane is common for all Baschet instruments.
The sound source in Baschet instruments may also be xylophone rods, drums, springs, and much more.
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 Creative Special Projects
Baschet Sound Sculptures We had a group called Spiral way back in the late 70's through early 80's.
It was an improvisational percussion group and we played on anything that could be hit and made sounds.
We contacted the Baschet brothers; they liked our ideas and gave us a collection of sculptures to perform on.
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 THE BLACK RIDER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The cristal Baschet was invented by the French Baschet brothers, Francois and Bernard, a sculptor and an engineer, respectively, who since 1952 have collaborated on creating sound sculptures and inventing musical instruments.
A close cousin to the glass harmonica, the cristal Baschet (sometimes called the "crystal organ") is composed of 54 chromatically tuned glass rods, which are rubbed with wet fingers.
In the cristal Baschet, however, the vibration of the glass is passed on to a heavy block of metal by a metal stem, the variable length of which determines the frequency of the vibration (and therefore the pitch of the sound).
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 Sound sculpture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sound sculptures take the form of indoor sound installations, outdoor installations such as aeolian harps, automatons, or be more or less near conventional musical instruments.
Bernard Baschet and Francois Baschet, the Baschet Brothers
Sound sculpture : a collection of essays by artists surveying the techniques, applications, and future directions of sound sculpture.
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 Luigi Russolo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He came from a musical family; his father was a clockmaker and the local church organist, and his two elder brothers became professional musicians.
Luigi himself learnt to play the piano and violin, but at the age of sixteen decided to devote himself to painting.
A follow-up to the interest shown by non-Futurist composers, especially Ravel, Stravinsky and Varèse, by incorporating some of the intonarumori in a new composition would have considerably widened their exposure to the musical world and the general public.
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 Passion River - International Distribution
It includes over 10 years of footage from the industry's top filmmakers, arguably the best compilation of big mountain skiing ever caught on film.
Baschet: The Transfiguration of Daily Life presents candid interviews with the Baschet brothers near the height of their fame in 1963 and footage with other composers playing their unique musical instruments.
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 Anarchestra: www.anarchestra.net
The Baschet Brothers (see article below) developed another system.
It would be impossible for me to say how much of this I would have done without the example set and th....
The Baschet Brothers (makers of Les Structures Sonores) defined four elements of musical instruments.
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 EMI Back Issues Volumes 3 & 4, 6/1987-4/1989
Francois Baschet addresses destructive communication, standing waves, and progressive waves for tuning instruments.
List of scintillating effects and topics: phase shifting, pitch wavering, volume swells from swung trumpets and spinning bells; The Pyrophone first invented by Georges Frederic Eugene Kastner in 1873, using flames to activate an air column; the Tang Koa bamboo chime operated by waterpower; leaf and grass oboes; Banda Mocha ensemble from Equador; underwater instruments.
"Structures Sonores: Instruments of Bernard and Francois Baschet" by Bart Hopkin.
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 Bernard Baschet Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Francois Baschet Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 CMT.com : Annick Nozati : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A huge influence around 1967 was the brothers Baschet, who created sound sculptures and drew in many players from the European experimental scene.
Nozati's later solo recordings include wonderful examples of her improvising with her mentor Baschet's sound sculptures.
She also came in contact with the Art Ensemble Of Chicago during that group's extended Parisian residency, a period of experimental art and radical politics.
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 Harry Bertoia Research Projrct : History
He had one brother, Oreste and one sister, Ave.
Instead of returning to Italy the youmg bertoia stayed behind to attend Cass Technical High School a public school with a special program for talented students in arts and sciences.
Harry was an explorer and, like the brothers Baschet, invented new musical instruments that were used in many recordings.
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 The Tentacle | Articles | April 2000
The purpose of my trek was twofold: to visit my brother and his family, who manage a research station in the BNR, and to record the panoply of amazing sounds made by the diverse creatures that inhabit this tropical rain forest.
There are highly aggressive, venomous snakes such as the fer-de-lance viper that pose a continual danger despite my brother's best efforts to catch and then release them on yonder unpopulated side of the Bladen River, and my meticulous waving of my walking staff at dawn and dusk.
Then there is the aforementioned pack of wild boars which, although not bred for first-strike capability, are territorial and good for a scare and disruption to one's trajectory.
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 McKenna Flutes: Do It Yourself - Plans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Francois & Bernard Baschet, Sound Sculpture: The Baschet Experience— Shapes, Sounds and People, 1945-1965 (Unpublished manuscript, 1965).
And Francois Baschet, The Art of Musical Fountains (unpublished manuscript, 1989).
The former is a colorful and anecdotal description of the Baschet brothers’ sonic explorations during a seminal period — both entertaining and educational.
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 Echoes Playlist Week of January 26, 2004 (Week 04)
The original drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he's since carved out a niche career with his atmospheric soundtracks, mostly for director Steven Soderbergh including Sex, Lies and Videotape and Solaris.
In addition to the usual film composers tools of orchestra and synthesizers, Martinez has custom instruments including American gamelan and the other-worldly sound sculptures of the French Baschet brothers.
He merges these into haunting scores that brim with atmosphere and mystery.
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