Hydraulophones and the "States of H2Orchestra"

H2Orchestra performing for National Capital Commission, Ottawa from Steve Mann on Vimeo.

H2Orchestra (our full name is "States of H2Orchestra") was born when the sounds of liquid flowing through valves inspired H2Orchestra member S. Mann to invent the hydraulophone in the early 1980s.

Although water has been used to make music for many centuries, (ancient Greek and Roman water organs, Handel's water music, etc.), the hydraulophone is the first musical instrument to make musical notes directly from the sounds of water.

The water organ and hydraulis of ancient times made sound from air, using water merely as a source of power to push air across a fipple mechanism or through some other kind of aerophone.

H2Orchestra uses hydraulophones, which are instruments in which the sound originates from turbulence and vortex-shedding phenomena of water itself.

Dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) actually exists in various other states-of-matter or phases, such as ice (solid), and steam (vapour, gas).

H2Orchestra uses all four "Elements" of H2O:

Solid H2O
Liquid H2O
Gas H2O
Plasma "H2O"
(Ice) (Water) (Steam) ("Lightening")
("Earth") (Water) ("Air") ("Fire")
Pagophone
 H'phone
 Idratmosphone
 Plasmaphone
These four new instruments, invented by S. Mann, each work with one of the states-of-matter (Elements), as follows:

Composer is R. Janzen; members include C. Aimone, A. Garten, E. Katz, and S. Mann

H2Orchestra.pdf, a document describing us in more detail...
http://wearcam.org/h2orchestra.htm
h2orchestra.org
http://www.eyetap.org/fluid/