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Tin Can Guiro

A machine of the imagination is a short piece of music or a soundscape.

It is the sound of an imaginary machine.

 

Tin Can Guiro machine was created using an empty baked bean can and a six inch nail.

You could use a pencil or a plastic biro instead of a nail.

sounds you can hear include

  • scraping
  • tapping

Q. The scraping sound of the tin can guiro suggests a word or phrase. What word or phrase do you hear?


We might say that the essence of this machine is constant scraping with intermittent tapping.

Have a look at a traditional guiro on wikipedia.

Baumdong machine >

 

Baum Dong Machine was created using body sounds...

  • finger snaps
  • dental tremolo (trrrrrrrr sound)
  • chi chi vocal sound
  • voice