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Creating instruments for the Lost and Found Orchestra is a little like reinventing the wheel: we have been recreating problems that were solved centuries ago by instrument designers. For example, we find it more interesting to have eight people playing a single melody by sharing the notes (using instruments capable of producing only one note at a time) rather than creating a more sophisticated multi-toned instrument. We see this as STOMP’s take on campanology, which is inherently much more theatrical than giving a solo instrumentalist centre stage. Orchestral instruments use several different approaches to sound-making that can be described using the ‘Sachs–Hornbostel’ system, which categorises instruments according to the initial source of vibration in each instrument: it could be wind, string, skin, wood, metal... A few examples of Lost and Found instruments follow... |
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