"Another magazine shot with what looks like the DERMATRON which was used to play people like musical instruments"
http://www.brucehaack.com/pix.asp
in the documentary it shows the 'person being played' sits on some sort of metal conductor and haack touches the person and moves his hands to create sound
http://www.brucehaack.com/images/tvshow.jpg
TV show "I've Got a Secret" Bruce demonstrating DERMATRON to show host Gary Moore. 1960
Check this out; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu6GeQJfrI0 The same photo from the post appears in this movie. Apparently the instrument in the picture is called the "Peopleodian." Pretty cool... I found the video when I looked up the documentry, "The King Of Techno" that _ mentioned.
dermatron if I'm not mistaking. he made it himself.
ReplyDeleteyou're correct. ted pandel is my father in law
DeleteWhat a haack!
ReplyDeleteYou should check out the film about him - The King Of Techno.
ReplyDeleteTotally wonderful!
EEG?
ReplyDeletehaack made all his own stuff. Not paia.
ReplyDelete"Another magazine shot with what looks like the DERMATRON which was used to play people like musical instruments"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.brucehaack.com/pix.asp
in the documentary it shows the 'person being played' sits on some sort of metal conductor and haack touches the person and moves his hands to create sound
http://www.brucehaack.com/images/tvshow.jpg
TV show "I've Got a Secret" Bruce demonstrating DERMATRON to show host Gary Moore. 1960
This photograph was proceeded by the this statement.
ReplyDelete"Why don't you come by my place and work on some music? By the way this works much better if you're naked."
Check this out; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu6GeQJfrI0 The same photo from the post appears in this movie. Apparently the instrument in the picture is called the "Peopleodian." Pretty cool... I found the video when I looked up the documentry, "The King Of Techno" that _ mentioned.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, Haack used an Optigan on "Captain Entropy" and later used an Electro-Harmonix vocoder. The latter was spotted for sale on eBay a few years ago.
ReplyDelete^Do you mean the EXACT one he used on BITE and ELII, or just the same model?
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