Overview

Implementation as a simulacrum of the modified "Klingelspiel" instruments for music composed by Helmut Lachenmann especially the piece Mouvement −vor der Erstarrung”

Klingelspiel is a hacked toy instrument aka "frog-piano", used in Helmut Lachenmann's piece "Mouvement (-Vor der Erstarrung)". Since they are mostly broken or unavailable, they have been implemented as simulacra with the visual programming language Puredata aka Pd. There are several versions for use with or without a tetrahedral loudspeaker, a single instrument or as three instruments. It has to be adapted to the actual performance.

Notes

  • a paper describing the development is appended
  • for different situations the patch has to be modified
  • The structure also represents the development process for further improvements.