The Earl of Lunchington

Lunchington at Hand Made Music Festival August 2011

Lunchington playing with Ah'm and Eloise at KIPL Warehouse, Nth Melbourne, 20 August 2011

Build your own reverb drum!

Workshop: DIY Massive verb drum with the Earl of Lunchington

Sunday 21st August at KIPLWarehouse, 136 Roden Street, West Melbourne
Session 1 11am-1pm and
Session 2 2-4pm

Using recycled materials, participants will learn how to make an extremely responsive reverberating instrument with the capacity to generate huge, deep reverberation lasting up to two minutes. This instrument can be played with mallets, bows and fingers and can produce a variety of unique sounds and textures with no need for amplification. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will have a complete instrument and will have gained skills that will enable them to glean maximum resonance from objects and materials as well as an understanding of how most acoustic instruments work.

All materials and tools provided. Although it is recommended that you bring gardening or rigging gloves.

Cost: $45/$30 conc.

Maximum of 7 participants per workshop, places are limited please book early!

For bookings and more information, email the Earl at earl.lunchington[at]gmail.com

Cycolospoke at Craft Victoria 2010

Launch of Craft Cubed Festival 2010 at Craft Victoria featuring the Cycolospoke

Photos by Lily Feng Craft Victoria thanks lily

Canal of Darkness

Excerpt of Ros Bandt and Albert Mishriki performance for 350 Degrees Festival

The Sound Playground 2010

Wood, steel, aluminium, plastic, rollerblade wheels, mixing bowl, guitar bodies, transducer, guitar pickups, ball bearing, egg ring, springs, door knob, music box tines, machine heads, bamboo, guitar strings, bass string, violin string, zither strings, piano wire, hose clamps, sticky tape, LP vinyls.

Excerpt of Sound Playground performance at fortyfivedownstairs 2010 with Rowan McNaught, Emma Lashmar, and Rod Cooper. Images courtesy Helen Metzger, thanks Helen! more pics and the catalogue essay can be found at

http://craft-victoria.blogspot.com/2010/07/sound-playground.html