{"id":39943,"date":"2012-02-16T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=39943"},"modified":"2020-06-20T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T23:36:17","slug":"if-vi-was-ix-roots-and-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=39943","title":{"rendered":"IF VI WAS IX: Roots and Branches, Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sculpture is composed of nearly 700 instruments. Forty are custom-made, computer-controlled self-playing guitars, which perform a series of Trimpin’s compositions expressive of the roots of American popular music (jazz, blues, country, folk and rock).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the first things you see upon entering the Experience Music Project<\/em> in Seattle is a seemingly large musical instrument tornado. It’s comprised of a mishmash of guitars, basses, keyboards, banjos, custom self-playing stringed instruments, and a whole heck of a lot of ingenuity. The sculpture was a crowd pleaser and easy conversation piece. I couldn’t seem to stop photographing it.<\/p>\n

The artist is Trimpin, a Seattle based artist who’s life story<\/a> reads like and eclectic novel. In 2009 a movie<\/a> was made about him.<\/p>\n