CASSETTE TAPES FROM EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Experimental Musical Instruments produces a cassette tape each year, containing the music of instruments that appeared during the year in the quarterly issues of EMI. On these tapes you will hear some of the most innovative and intriguing instruments created in recent years. The cassettes are on high quality chrome tape, and included with each is an information sheet on the instruments. The material on these tapes is wildly diverse - raucous, peaceful, beautiful, ugly, weird & familiar by turns, and sometimes all at once. Fascinating music from some genuinely inventive people. The Volume I,IV and V cassette tapes have sold out. Just a few copies of Volumes II and III remain available at this time - order soon if you want them or they'll be gone. Volumes VI, VII and VIII are in good supply. The cost per tape is US $8 apiece for EMI subscribers, $10.50 for others. Those prices include postage for domestic and overseas surface rate; for overseas air add 20%. California residents add 7.25% sales tax. Send your check or money order to EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Box 784, Nicasio CA 94946 USA. Simply send a check with a note giving your address and detailing your order. From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume II covers EMI's second year of publication. Seventeen builder/musicians appear: Steven Smith plays 31-tone glass marimba and 53-tone conduit marimba; Matthew Finstrom plays his harp-vina; Darrell De Vore plays mallet kalimbas; John Sandlin & Steve Sweigert play altered music boxes and leather-strap tensionable guitars; Vera Meyer plays Franklin glass harmonica; Ivor Darreg plays the megalyra, drone & Hobnailed Newel Post; Robin Goodfellow plays a justly-tuned tuning fork set; Denny Genovese plays fipple pipes; Richard Waters plays the Waterphone; Minnie Black plays gourd instruments; Siemen Terpstra plays Polychord I; Ernie Altoff plays random music machines; David Courtney plays home computer signal processors; Tony Pizzo plays tamboura and mouthbow; and Nazim Ozel plays the Semi-civilized Tree. From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume III contains instruments from the EMI's third year of publication. Fifteen builder/musicians appear: Michael Meadows plays a harmonic ensemble of winds & strings; Darrell de Vore plays bamboo magic; Ken Butler & friends play hybrid instruments; david & Chandrakantha Courtney present Kamakshi Veena, tablas & vocals; Bart Hopkin plays baritone & alto slide whistles; Hans Barnard plays triolin; Leo Tadagawa presents Tinkolin on the Head; Jacques Dudon plays Aquavina; Pierre-Jean Croset plays altuglas waterdrums & metal chimes; Buzz Kimball plays refretted guitars;Robert Grawi plays the Gravichord; and Chris Swartz & Robert Hollis play various homebuilt instruments. From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume VI covers EMI's sixth year of publication. Sixteen builder/musicians or groups appear: Phil Dadson and the From Scratch ensemble play percussion aerophones and other instruments of the percussion stations; Bob Fenger plays Acousticizer, an electroacoustic prepared piano with feedback; Bill King plays the Board, a large scale electroacoustic board zither; Tobias Kaye plays stringed musical bowls; Jim Nollman on underwater electric guitar plays duets with sea mammals; Tom Nunn plays T-rodimba EPB, a table top equipped with a variety of sound sources; tENTATIVELY, A cONVENIENCE does street noise with bood usic busking unit; Ed Stander plays musical glasses; old fashioned automatic music instruments from the collection of Art Sander's Musical Museum play themselves; H. Barnard plays the Matzaar, a fretted string instrument tuned to Aliquot tone scales; Richard Graham plays diddley bows; David Myers plays the feedback machine, a network of interacting delay devices; Bill Sethares plays 19-tone equal guitar and synthesizers; Bart Hopkin plays multiple corrugated horns; John Jordan plays 9-string guitar; and Tom Guralnik plays the (not so) Mobile Saxophone and Mute Unit. From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume VII covers EMI's seventh year of publication. Fourteen builder/musicians or groups appear: Alec Bernstein and Daniel Carney play computer-controlled piano; Qubais Reed Ghazala plays circuit-bending instruments; Peter Whitehead plays available material instruments; Ferdinand Foersch plays metal tongue drums, strings & other instruments; Maciunas Ensemble plays long string and conjoined string installations; Hal Rammell plays Devil's Fiddle; John Hajeski plays Portable Anarchy; Alistair Riddle plays computer-controlled piano; William Louis Soerensen presents environmental sound installations; Wee Jimmy Scott plays the Goliath Volcanic Rock Dulcimer; Richard Waters plays Waterharp; Bart Hopkin plays membrane reeds and trillium cluster; and Tuyo plays percussion aerophones, metallophones and modified accordians. From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume VIII covers EMI's eighth year of publication. Fourteen builder/musicians or groups appear.: Susan Alexander plays sounds from chemical light absorbsion spectra; David Barnes plays instruments instruments for Percussion Symphony #1; Thomas Block plays ondes Martenot;Wesley Brown plays slide bass clarinet; Ken Butler plays Hybrid Instruments; Matthieu Croset plays stone pillars in Hindu temples; Oliver Di Cicco plays Trilon; Q.R. Ghazala plays incantors; Bonnie McNairn & Jim Wilson (Voice of Eye) play theremin; Hal Rammel plays the Sound Palette; Susan Radcliffe plays ceramic flutes and whistles; Dan Senn plays Scrapercussion instruments; and Bill Sethares plays scrapyard instruments and synthesized sounds of crystals. From the Pages of Experimental Musical Instruments Volume IX contains music of instruments that were featured in the pages of the journal over the last year, from the September 1993 to the June 1994 issue. A panoply of different instrument types appear, including: Soundworks of ice and stone by Mineko Grimmer;Deagan Organ Chimes as played by M.B. Cox; Extended wind instruments by Warren Burt and Brigid Burke "Aqua-lin" and other instruments fro the old Marx musical instruments company; VoxInsecta by Q.R. Ghazala; Flower-pot-o-phone by Barry Hall; Software-o-phones by Henry Lowengard; Industrial Strength electromagnetic pickup instruments by Steve Ball; Timbre and Tuning explorations by Bill Sethares; Caribbean drums by Rupert Lewis (with a mento trio) Intriiguing oddities by Martien Groeneveld ;and several other items not yet confirmed! .