Inflatable drone percussions
I built a new instrument: An inflatable bop bag with five contact mics. It is an adorable addition to my live performance setup and is played very intuitively as demonstrated in the youtube-video:
The sound waves generated by hitting the blow up doll, with some guitar sound effects added, go from fake-strings to backslapping granular drones with quite some dynamic range. Sometimes the easy things just make DIY so enjoyable…