Ocarinas!

These are some pictures of the Ocarinas I have recently been making from earthernware, stoneware and terracotta. The glazes are Jade, Peacock and Black. If you'd like to take one home, they are in stock at 'Broken Wind' instrument store in Melbourne at 730 Plenty Rd Reservoir, come and visit! http://www.brokenwind.com.au/home.cfm

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

All Together Now: Found Sound Workshop featuring the Vibrottle

open improvisation with instruments by albert mishriki dale gorfinkel ben kolaitis and dylan martorell

Found Sound: The Experimental Instrument Project featuring the Clangtangle

Performance with Ros Bandt Guildford Lane Gallery January 2009 featuring the

Clang Tangle by Albert Mishriki & Ros Bandt, 2009.
A multi-timbral, original instrument assemblage collaboratively designed by Ros and Albert. Featuring PVC pipes, bells made from plumbing reducers, and experimental reverberating percussion instruments on a 2.2 x 2.4 metre frame. 

Photos by Helen Metzger. 

Found Sound launch with Ros Bandt

Excerpts of Ros Bandt and Albert Mishriki performing on original instruments at launch of Found Sound: The Experimental Instrument Project