When guitar becomes irrelevant: Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari Prototype instruments.

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Love stuff like this. 

Quoting the blurb:

"Not really instruments in the sense of beautifully crafted art objects so much as crude de-constructions patched together using the simplest of means, and requiring only minimal exertion to produce sound. My “planks of wood with strings” were almost all built in the early 1980s, when for a period of a couple of years I abandoned the guitar as my primary vehicle for improvising. I had come to the conclusion that the guitar was not really relevant—as a guitar—to the way I was playing, and was trying to reduce the idea of an “instrument” to its most basic and simple form. I guess you could say that Sudhu and I share a kind of “junk” aesthetic"

Love the modular no string guitar (especially the fact that its guitar shape is completely pointless).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc7zs3rmQ9Q