The Steel Cello and Bow Chime were made by US abstract expressionist painter Bob Rutman in the late

Sviranje na plahtama metala kao da se radi o violončelu. Izum slikara Roberta Rutmana. Zvuk zavijajućeg svemira. www.uel.ac.uk/steelcello/ Bob Rutman (Steel Cello) Coventry Cathedral, 2002 [1.49MB] Wolfram Der Spyra (Bow Chime, Electronics) Studio, ways of food preservation Berlin 2004 [1.55MB] Adrian Palka and Mark Bowler (Bow Chimes) St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004 [1.38MB] ways of food preservation
The Steel Cello and Bow Chime were made by US abstract expressionist painter Bob Rutman in the late 1960s. They grew out of an artistic collaboration with musician/artist Constance Demby for the exhibition Space Mass, at Rutman’s New York gallery. ways of food preservation Rutman conceived them as musical-sculptures, a form in which both their visual presence and sound qualities are of equal and inseparable importance. They were designed as objects to be played and it’s from this combination that their unique ways of food preservation qualities arise. Since the 1970s Bob Rutman has produced a continuous stream of recordings and live performances. The Steel Cello and Bow Chime are extremely versatile and performances have been shown in a remarkable range of locations. These include major museums and arts galleries, such as MOMA, New York, and the ICA, London, as well as Coventry Cathedral and the Tiergarten road tunnel in Berlin. Their versatility also leads to a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations. In the 1970s and 1980s when Bob Rutman was based in the US, he collaborated with major performing artists and directors including Robert Wilson, Merce Cunningham and Peter Sellars. Since moving to Berlin in 1987 the Steel Cellos and Bow Chimes have been used in major musical theatre productions such as Walden by Heiner Goebbels, dance collaborations with Tanzfabrik Berlin, and a tour with the band Einsturzende Neubauten. They are regularly seen at art and cabaret events in Berlin and indeed through out Europe. There is also a Steel Cello in the collection of major German contemporary ways of food preservation art collector, Erich Marx. There are several other practitioners who work with versions of the Steel cello and Bow Chime. Adrian Palka has been performing with the Steel Cello and Bow Chime since a London based collaboration with Bob Rutman in 1996. He currently works with Mark Bowler, a music graduate from Coventry University. Their work operates across a number of interdisciplinary projects and explores relations between sound, video projection ways of food preservation and live performance. Wolfram Der Spyra is a musician and sound artist from Kassel in Germany. In his work he incorporates ways of food preservation the Bow Chime as a sound source integrated into a keyboard and computer based set-up in the live performances of electronic music. The original steel cello was constructed out of an 8 by 4 foot piece of sheet matte steel. The steel vibrates when the string is bowed. It produces sounds which range from deep drones ways of food preservation to high-pitched squeaks. It is capable of producing subtle micro-tones and delicate harmonic overtones as well as overwhelming crashing cacophonies. ways of food preservation The Bow Chime works on a similar principle to the Steel Cello. A horizontal steel sheet is made to vibrate through the action of a bow on vertical, tuned steel rods. Recent experiments at Coventry University with infra-sound expert, Vic Tandy, have recorded infra sound levels down to 2 Hertz, well below audible ways of food preservation levels. It is possible that the emotional impact of the sounds is enhanced from sub sonic frequencies sub-consciously registered by the brain and organs of the body. -   www.uel.ac.uk/steelcello/ Italy's excellent Holidays Records follow-up crucial blasts from Bellows and Ghédalia Tazartès in 2013 with this reissue of Robert Rutman's 1979 masterpiece, 'Bitter Suites' with the U.S. Steel Cello Ensemble, released to coincide with his 83rd birthday. It'll become hard to believe once you've heard it, but all the sounds are live recordings of the Bow Chime and the Single String Cello - six foot, sheet-metal instruments capable of an astonishing range, from keening falsetto to voluminous bass drone, evolved from a decade of research and refinement by Rutman. The A-side is a recording of two Bow Chimes played by David Zaig and Suzanne Bresler, accompanied ways of food preservation by String Cello played ways of food preservation by Rutman at The Showing Room, New York, summer '79, sounding out a breathtaking scape of wide, snaking bass drones and ferrous high end with the doomy intent of contemporary Eyvind Kang or Hildur Gudnadottir compositions. And the B-side, recorded in spring '79 at the Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston, is darker still, featuring four Bow Chimesplayed by Jim Van Denakker, Rex Morril, Steve Baer and Robert Rutman to sound like a tuned squadron of low flying bombers. They're phenomenal recordings. - boomkat 
Those marvellous people at  Holidays  have sent us a couple more records this week which I’m pleased about because their output is at worst interesting. This one here is a deluxe reissue of an LP originally issued in 1979, containing music performed on Robert Rutman’s Bow Chime and Si