AUDIORIUM

Bart Hopkin

Album available for streaming or download, published October 2024 on the Experimental Musical Instrumen
ts label, Exp-020.

Here’s a new album of music by Bart Hopkin, played mostly on instruments of his own design and construction. You can learn more about the instruments by following the links in the track list below, or by exploring the Instrumentarium pages in this website.

All tracks composed and performed by Bart Hopkin. Sally Davis joined the performance on tracks 2, 5, 8 and 15. All tracks and cover drawing copyright 2024 by Bart Hopkin, all rights reserved. One-stop licensing: contact bart@barthopkin.com.

TRACK LIST

1. Udu Set (Udu Set, Tall Sad Aggie, Square Boos) 1:54.

2. Waffle K (Waffle K, Squiggly & Sinuous, Rumba Box, percussion) 2:27

3. Slanted Man (Dansal 3, Tines & Echoes, Bowed T-Rods, ’Moe Flute, Spomo-Lo) 2:41

4.Stamping Tubes (Stamping Tubes, Interrupted Recorder, Coffee Can Cuica, percussion) 2:32

5. Flango: (Several unidentified instruments from a live jam, plus ’Moe and gongs) 2:24

6. Y-String Guitar (Y-String Guitar, Tines & Echoes, Airy-Air) 1:44

7. Combs (Combs, Savart’s Wheel, Slide Rattletine, frame drums and additional percussion) 2:31

8. Big Weights (Big Weights, Cassidy Roaster) 2:43

9. Sorry-Ass Organ (Sorry-Ass Organ, Piezo Tongues, sleighbells) 1:24

10. Tin with Tines (Tin with Tines, blown bottles) 1:32

11. Airy-Air & Bari Airy-Air (Airy-Air, Cubist Bass, sandpaper) 1:24

12. Squiggly & Sinuous  (Squiggly & Sinuous, Wooden Saxophone, Arby McCone) 1:50

13. Bamboo Idiomount (Bamboo Idiomount, Dabba Shakers, Hippy Pappy, Square Boos) 2:04

14. Sad Aggie & Noodles (Tall Sad Aggie, 2+2+1, Elastic Guitar, Noodles) 1:56

15. Metal Drums, etc. (Metal Drums, ’Moe Sax, Suction Pops, Creased Bands, khaen, hand drums and additional percussion) 2:04

16. Why Scrape (Why Scrape, Spomo-Lo, Brancor, Square Boos, piano) 2:17

17. Styro K (Styro K, Rotisserie Friction, Hippy Pappy) 2:24

18. Pepper Tailpieces (Pepper Tailpieces, Cubist Bass) 1:45

19.Dinosaur Waltz (Dinosaur, Waterfall, Suction Pops, NS-EW Chimes, Cubist Bass, Rumba Box, Bells, additional percussion) 1:48