Birds in Weather at Otto's Shrunken Head

Birds in Weather at Otto's Shrunken Head this Friday (3/9/2012)

Social Repose - synth-pop from Washington DC 10PM
http://www.socialrepose.com/

Birds in Weather - catchy indie rock from Brooklyn 11PM
http://birdsinweather.blogspot.com/

Dialogue from a Silent Film - deafening post-punk from all over the east coast 12AM
http://listn.to/dialoguefromasilentfilm

We go on at 11pm.

BIW doing a some R&D

Here's a little dork-out post of some of the music projects that have been going on in the BIW Lab.

Electric Harpsichord with Guitar Strings

This is the latest music project. It works a like a harpsichord but uses electric guitar strings and magnetic pickups. It also has a built-in preamp that can boost up the gain. It will probably take a while to complete so don't expect to see it on stage at the next show.

Here's a close-up of the picking or plucking thing-- whatever you want to call it.

 

Pick-up winding mechanism... This is too much info, isn't it? 

Before that, i built an input selector switch with volume and tone control. I should probably use it...

Selector pedal

Finally, i just started working on this Orpheum 1860, which Dave got from somewhere here in Brooklyn. I guess it's from Japan and the 60's and is awesome.

Orpheum Electric

Quite late...

Last weekend we played a really fun show at Moon ii...
http://themoonii.com/
really fun spot. Thanks to Paris Mancini for setting that one up!

See Birds in Weather tomorrow night at the Suffolk

Come see us tomorrow night at the Suffolk Bar with SIRENS! FREE!

Birds in Weather 9:30
SIRENS 10:30 http://www.facebook.com/pages/SIRENS/271083116245948

Located at:
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
(just south of Rivington) 
(212) 982-5008 ‎ 






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