Bach Invention

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 Hydraulophone Improv

OMG!! Check out this wonderful YouTube of the music of Bach being played on the Mega-Hydraulophone located at Toronto’s Ontario Science Centre! Bach is reputed to have loved hearing his music played on different instruments, so I’m sure he would have been blown away by this! I had absolutely no idea how fantastic this outdoor, stainless steel beauty of an instrument actually is, and I also hadn’t realized that it’s located out front of the Science Centre as opposed to indoors!

Pictured above in this post is a glimpse behind the scenes of where this wondrous new instrument was originally conceived by Torontonian Steve Mann. As mentioned in the previous post their workshop had been kinda turned upside down just hours as they crated up a Hydraulophone that was being sent to Texas.

Without my flute drowning things out, in the recording above you can more properly hear the sound of the ever-present water trickling in the background. Part Charles-Marie Widor, part Olivier Messiaen, I stand by my first little improv on my new favourite instrument, the Aqua-Flute!