[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Strange Symphony takes the blowpipe and bolts it on to a trumpet

Tony Patti gaffer at glassblower.info
Sat May 4 12:04:55 EDT 2013


This arrived as a Google Alert this morning, too unusual not to share!

 

http://www.designboom.com/design/strange-symphony-by-philipp-weber-at-dmy-be
rlin-2013/

 

The 9-minute video is here: http://vimeo.com/57160099

 

More here too:
http://gizmodo.com/this-trumpet-blasts-solos-made-of-glass-489393330 

 



 



 


 <http://gizmodo.com/this-trumpet-blasts-solos-made-of-glass-489393330> This
Trumpet Blasts Solos Made of Glass


 


A glassblower's weapon of choice has been a simple blowpipe over 2,000 years
now. It's a tried and true device. But that doesn't mean there's no room
<http://www.designboom.com/design/strange-symphony-by-philipp-weber-at-dmy-b
erlin-2013/> to jazz it up a little, and that's exactly what "Strange
Symphony" does.

A collaboration between designer  <http://www.philippweber.nl/> Philpp Weber
and glassblower Christophe Genard, Strange Symphony takes the time-tested
blowpipe and bolts it on to a modern trumpet's guts, allowing its user to
"improvise" each piece of glass. Each key on the trumpet directs air out a
different hole on the device's business end,
<http://www.designboom.com/design/strange-symphony-by-philipp-weber-at-dmy-b
erlin-2013/> and produces  <http://www.philippweber.nl/glass4.html> some
unusual results.

Weber is showing off the instrument at this year's DMY Berlin, and though
it's unlikely to take the glassblowing world by storm, it's a clever twist
on an age-old process. Somebody get one of these in a ska band STAT. [
<http://www.designboom.com/design/strange-symphony-by-philipp-weber-at-dmy-b
erlin-2013/> Designboom]



 


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