Ryan playing Pachelbel's canon on the water fountain (water pipe organ flute, hydraulophone) out in front of the Ontario Science Centre

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Woodwater instruments (hydraulophones) are like woodwind instruments but use water instead of air. This hydraulophone is a hyperinstrument (acoustic instrument with a pickup on each jet, and wireless transmission to other instruments).

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Suite for Hydraulophone, as performed by Ryan Janzen in the Great Hall, with the Hart House Symphonic Band. This is the world's first orchestral performance in which instruments make sound from all three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). Other orchestras use only 2 states of matter: solid (percussion and strings), and gas (wind instruments).

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Shows invention of the hydraulophone, a musical instrument based on pressurized water jets, featuring "Nessie", a children's hydraulophone in the form of a cute green sea monster, as well as other hydraulophones, such as the single-jet hydraulophone in which all sound is made from one screeching water valve on a single jet. The video shows various changes in the sound, depending on how the water jets are blocked.

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Summertime played on all 3 states-of-matter: Violin (produces sound by matter in its solid state); Hydraulophone (produces sound by matter in its liquid state); and Clarinet (produces sound by matter in its gas state). Violin by Alex Cheung, violinist of The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra; Hydraulophone, S. Mann (inventor of hydraulophone); Clarinet, R. Janzen (also a composer for hydraulophone).

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Hatikva (La Mantovana, Ballo di Mantova, originally from 17th Century Italy), played on hydraulophone (water-pipe-organ flute), an instrument that's like a woodwind but uses water instead of air ("woodwater instrument"). Set to a very low and gentle water flow.

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The hydraulophone is an acoustic instrument played by covering up water spray jets to play music. Acoustic hydraulophones are often fitted with underwater microphones (hydrophones) and some are also fitted with a MIDI interface, so that water spray jets can be used as controllers. The main fountain out in front of the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto is a hydraulophone.

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Acoustic hydraulophone fitted with hyperacoustic (hyperinstrument) option to add a variety of instrumental sounds to the natural acoustic sounds made by water (separate fipple-like mechanism for each finger hole so this flute can play chords). (Note that the extra instrumentation does not come with the basic acoustic hydraulophone stock-model.)

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Dame Evelyn Glennie meets Professor Steve Man from the University of Toronto Applied Science Faculty. Inventor of the Hydraulophone, Evelyn's Introduction to it. Nov 2007

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Playing on hydraulophone hyper-instrument in DGI-byen Vandkulturhuset ("Water Culture House") swim center

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Hydraulophones in Dundas Square

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Hydraulophone in cave near Normill... Playing Hatikva, in a cave, in the river.

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The song "Happy Birthday" played on the standard 45-jet concert hydraulophone, first verse played as usual, second verse improvised for a more thoughtful/introspective sense of the passage of yet another year. (Second verse is an introspective variation, beginning in harmonic minor, then moving to natural minor, and ending in harmonic minor.)

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"Huron Carol" played on hydraulophone

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High resolution version (takes a while to finish "Loading..."). Water fountain that's a highly expressive musical instrument. You play it by blocking the water jets in various ways, which forces the hydraulic fluid (water) into the sound-producing mechanism in various ways. It works alot like a pipe organ, except that it uses water instead of air.

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Two people playing "House of the Rising Sun" on the hydraulophone (water pipe organ flute which is the fountain outside the Ontario Science Centre).

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The main centerpiece at the Ontario Science Centre is a water-pipe organ flute (hydraulophone) fountain.

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Fluidly flowingly playing the dry-hydraulophone (pneumatophone) florgan (organflute)

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Laughter is not all the New Year brings. Sometimes it also brings introspective thoughts, and an awareness of the inevitible passage of time. So I present this variation (some "minor" revisions) on the popular New Year's song. I meant it to be played on a wind-up music box, chimes, or a hydraulophone. Auld Lang Sigh (New Year's Tears), in A-minor S. Mann, 2007 (based on Auld Lang Syne) strong emphasis on dominant to emphasize "is" Am E Am Dm My auld aquantance is forgot, a--nd ne--'er brought to mind. Am E Am F Am My auld aquantance is forgot, a--nd days of auld lang sigh. Am E Am Dm For auld lang sigh, my de--ar, for a--uld lang sigh. Am E I'll tak a cup of fallen tears, Am F-----F Am F-or all these long lost years. (lightly touch water jets for "these" then block fully for "long"

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A volunteer playing Steve Mann's hydraulophone, a pressure-sensitive sound/water sculpture/instrument. This was an interactive exhibit displayed during Nuit Blanche near the ROM.

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Captured on a Nokia N95

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"What Child is This" ("Greensleeves") played on hydraulophone

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Fluidly flowing music played on hydraulophone (The Snowman song, "Walking in the Air", composer Howard Blake).

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Ryan Janzen's Suite for Hydraulophone, Movement II, played in the Great Hall, as recorded by an underwater video camera (gets in close to the water sprays near the end)

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Pachelbel's Canon played on hydraulophone by composer+hydraulist Ryan Janzen, on Sunday 2007 September the 16th, as part of the Baldwin Village street festival. Baldwin Street was closed off to vehicular traffic between Beverly and McCaul.

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