me yeah really excited to have edward show us his instruments that he makes and where you make the instruments you know you make the instruments at a place called the generator  down off of pine street on sears lane yeah yeah and it's a new space right it is a new space we used to be in memorial auditorium yeah i've been in there that's fascinating so that's close i moved everything tours once in a while oh yes i've got to get down to the new space but every first friday of the month maybe but there are hop are the first friday gallery openings you know and yeah i'd say be somebody at the front desk and they can show you around there's an official orientation you have to take before you become a member of the generator but come by and somebody what's known as a maker space and others who work there would probably be more qualified and more knowledgeable to talk about it than i would be but if you live in burlington and have an idea for a project and you need a jumpstart on getting that project off the ground whether you need the right to walls or some knowledgeable  info and suggestions from people who have made similar projects what you're thinking of the generator is the place to get that jump start you're looking for so i kind of want to hear you talk more about what you've been working on i make essentially musical walking sticks and these are folk percussion instruments played in various parts of the  i made this out of an old walking stick that somebody else had carved and essentially it is a stick with a bunch of caps on it handle a rubber tip at the bottom and various other fun little sound toys and you play it with specialized drumsticks and i make those homemade as  well these are called rattlers so called because they have furniture tax or you can use them tax to that make the longer phone rattle when you rub the rattler on the and people can hear my voice at the same time and playing this once you've got those elements you can add in other crazy sounds like this yeah or this yeah yeah at the top of that is a sink strainer oh i on that yeah that's a good noise it is that i was really surprised by the noise it made that the first time i picked it up and struck it here so that's an example of just one of the instruments i've made i've made a bunch since may this is another one it's kind of a little bit different because i've added a striking surface that's metal here so it's not bare wood and it gives kind of a different sound the rattler the rattling effect doesn't quite work here but it's a totally different feel and they basically in a musical situation can stand in for the typical drum set and you get the rubber tip down here for your bass drum and then striking the surface to get a snare type sound in conjunction with the bas definitely and then some ridges that i added with a dremel a new toy that i bought with a stipend that the generator gave me i am the maker in residen for january and february and also march so i'll have my studio until the end of march so people to come visit me so this is what the riches sound like here ok so i talked a bit about the rattlers to just as i experimented with different designs and shapes and sounds for the lager phone i'm experimenting with t handle yeah paper tape it's a product i've found around town that i have really come to enjoy using and so that's just one design of  this one is pretty unique this one was also a tree branch cool thing about this one the color of this would have right now i've stained this but it it's the same color that the wood was before i stained it so usually staining gives your wood a different color different luster and you know unique look but yeah the wood that was under the bark was yellow like this i've never seen would this color before and so i call this the banana rattler yeah and this one uses  black duct tape so i'm experimenting with different types of tape different woods i really have no preference yet i'm early in this whole  here so i call this the jupiter rattler actually cuz it has a knot in the wood that kind of looks like the red spot that swirling storm on jupiter yeah that's what i saw in the not and so yeah various designs and looks like this one right here is made of bamboo a little piece of bamboo that i actually found here in the  moment and it has some green and white paper tape so this actually goes to a christmas themed log or a phone i have in my studio it is covered with jungle bells instead of the standard bottle caps so in the future i'm going to experiment with three placing the bottle caps with some other resonant objects yeah that's that that's made of rainier horn now i wish if there is one thing in the generator thrives upon it inspiration from other people working on their own stuff around you to put it more eloquently  the generators bread and butter is collaboration i personally have and collaborated with anybody on a project there yet but and i'm trying to remember your a few hours so i experimented with it and i really liked the results so with the stipend i got from my residency i decided to put it towards a dremel of my own and for those of you don't know dremel is both a brand name of power tool and the name of the tool itself it allows you to and grave and also has some other attachments china think of attachments it can see and it can cut through glass about not mistaken oh yeah has some diamond tipped blades but i'm not a incorporate them into my instruments like hammer yeah i'm wondering if maybe they were part of a door frame or some things like something like that yeah yeah  or maybe like they maybe they decorated a bookshelf so i don't know i'm inspired by really anything that has an interesting look and that sounds good when i tap it yeah i wondered about like when you walk around town are you the way you see there were others are influenced by your work as a logger phone maker like you see something and you instantly think oh i want to know what sound that makes yeah has it affected you like that how i view the world isn't specifically based on making longer phones i would say it's based on  y identification as a sound junky i walk around and i'm very aware of every every little sound from the yeah so let's see here sometimes i find i right when i'm out enjoying a drink at the bar and have nobody else to talk to go inside my head so  this is an example of one of those and see it's untitled but here goes taste of fermented wheat so sweet so many feet on the floor in this bar noise crowds my head no thoughts to be fed i wonder where i'm being led what are all these people talking about what are these people talking about i hear noise not conversation the moisture on my coaster condensation the dim light clisson ing through the beer the popping bubbles whispers to my ancestors do i hear you remember us remember us we laid your foundations pave the roads for your bus we toiled and we fart of the comforts you enjoyed today we thought we enjoyed a cold one after a day's work when it really meant something to remember your ancestors from paints a moment sitting and thinking lingering fingers exploring the puns of my cell the evening breeze is swell i mondo once time no one's dime i wish i had and coke with lime no drama no crime just a few moments of my time on this bench outside of this deli my legs like jelly feed sinking into concrete i feel timely timely here and this one is not titled either but i couldn't title it i watched the wasp i wrote this last year during summer i watched the wasp climb up the bust up window a tough guy reaching high yet falling down at random moments how many of us fall due to our swagger our false pride how many of us over  sad sad wrapped in anxious anxious wrapped in a slew of questions shrink wrapped in a warped frame still wishing for connections even with weather mild and kind even with new romantic dreams and lips and dimly lit room my mind recoils not anchors not answers not icons or echoes but just a thin strap would do stars above burnin their constellations dog star wrapped with a white dwarf white dwarf bound in gravity dog star the axis of it all even as every sat in limping thing collapses and radiate k yeah ok well this ok about muscle if there's no need for movement then no need for a brain i've learned a facts demonstrated by the sea squirt a small creature that swims freely in its youth until it settles on iraq then it devours its own brain and spinal cord it simply doesn't require them any longer don't let me settle for it this is a need for movement leads to need for muscle the the brain evolves in order to plan and execute reaching grasping turning according to the expert on charlie rose which i watch on my i pad while walking on the treadmill to rebuild my strength plenty of species thrive without brains he says it could be different on another planet i suppose but here evolution of the brain is about muscle just ask arnold schwarzenegger or an evolutionary biologist yet the brainless sea squirts still gets upset still squ maybe it's in a like a horse's hide shuttering to dislodge a fly maybe that's why i started moving and arranging boulders last fall i thought i was making a terrace but afterward it looks more like a gra south and either tennessee north carolina or virginia and alongside that is the little story kind of like a problem kind of more like a run on sentence however you call  all of new york being an age old fortress other cities are trees through all that rowan cow coon on delaware hundred feet across to damascus p a great rocks and river and orange sanford to kill the engine and stop the first great rush is over now enjoy eating with family and be a full boat on quite still stilts  for one of us a little later on the journey here i would do one more here yeah this one is the smokies coming in from asheville to cherokee after eating biscuits with gravy and bacon and the city which is quiet on the city on the sunny morning but allowed the way out weaving through industrial lots of all conditions finally to a mega highway keep in trees and mountains and only the constant roar and rush of ocean rude and metal leaves propelled by gasoline winter remind you of your true surroundings anyways made up to move on from to path in the us in the back country office obtaining a pass to camp riverside up into the big valley below the high peaks and fabled appalachian trail here we are dirty but well fed and a parking lot full of window peepers and a c c stores kiosk writing as fast as possible kind of into seeing what comes yeah yeah i'd say that's the kind of writing i do too it's good for your mind and i feel really liberated all over on here before probably but this one was like it and i it was the first one i opened up to today and it was just perfect for the moment i needed the cricket doesn't wonder if there's a heaven or if there is if there's room for him it's fall romance is over still he sings if he can he enters the house through the tiniest crack under the door then the house grows colder he sings slower and slower than nothing this must mean something i don't know what but certainly it doesn't mean he hasn't been an excellent cricket all his life like glued on but it's actually transparent brushstrokes or something maybe yeah and then the texture is actually on if you haven't heard of so a string well yes a string that sprays out of a can of course not really a string at like i mean a kick these days of using my the voice recognition software on my phone to ask a question like that like what is silly string made out of like what's the just like shake it on glitter yeah it looks very like won't fall off you or you don't have to worry about it like flaking off at all so that's really nice about it and speaking of the gener speaking of lager phones i made them at the generator space forty series from lane off of pine street so i definitely encourage all of you to come out and visit us if you are down in the south and