In 2012, he published the book Nice Noise, about prepared guitar techniques written by Hopkin and experimental builder Yuri Landman. Jason Lollar is a known builder of hand-wound electro-magnetic pickups.īesides writing, he has also built several experimental musical instruments such as wooden saxophones, the Bell Tree, harmonic zithers, the Savart Wheel, the Trillium Harp, the Trillium Cluster, and many other instruments that are difficult to categorize. Getting a Bigger Sound is a book Bart Hopkin wrote with Robert Cain and Jason Lollar about amplification of sound sources with several types of pickups ranging from piezo disc pickups to common pickups often used in electric guitars. For these publications, Hopkin regularly asks experts on the subject to co-write the books, such as Carl Dean for the book about how to build and tune marimbas. Hopkin published the magazine Experimental Musical Instruments for 15 years and published several books and CDs specialized in a specialisation of certain types of instruments, such as wind chimes, plosive aerophones and marimbas. Hopkin runs the website, which provides resources regarding unusual instruments. It was first headquartered in Nicasio, California, and then in Point Reyes Station, California.Bart Hopkin is a builder of experimental musical instruments and a writer and publisher on the subject.
Experimental Musical Instruments, magazine, 70 issues appeared as a printed publication between 19, later on re-issued as well on CD-ROM.
Īlthough only old editions of the magazine are still available and no newer editions appear, the name is still in use as the publisher for many of the books written by Bart Hopkin and co-writers. This site is, together with the main source on the internet for experimental musical instrumentalism.
The material and approach of EMI can now be found electronically on their site hosted by Bart Hopkin. Though no longer in print, back issues are still available. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įxperimental Musical Instruments was a periodical edited and published by Bart Hopkin, an instrument builder and writer about 20th century experimental music design and custom made instrument construction. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as Reflinks ( documentation), reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot.
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