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Hydrophonium: a tuned jar of water fitted with a submerged microphone. Described by its inventor, Danishta Rivero of Voicehandler, as an “electroacoustic percussion instrument,” this unusual device can be played in a number of ways. For example, it can be struck with a mallet, or bubbles can be blown into it through a straw. The resultant sounds are then processed through a variety of electronic effects.You’re not likely to hear this eerily beautiful sound on the radio, nor will you see Rivero on “The Late Show” or find her work on the Billboard Hot 100.You can, however, catch her and other adventurous musicians on both familiar and bizarre instruments at the fourth annual installment of The Roost, a concert series devoted to emergent music.
August 5 Polarity Taskmasters(Emily Hay, Brad Dutz and Motoko Honda)Sublime derangements August 12 Andrew Lamb Trio(with Ben Wright and Dave Wayne)Baptism via saxophone August 19 RoMarkable Quartet(Mark Whitecage, Rozanne Levine, Mary Rose and Joseph Salack)Textured sonic divagations August 26 Voicehandler(Jacob Felix Heule and Danishta Rivero)Nontraditional ethereocarnal songs September 2 Fufaka(Matt Norman and Al Faaet)Dynamic ear remodeling September 9 Slumgum(Jon Armstrong, Rory Cowal, David Tranchina and Trevor Anderies)Mainstream jazz for extraterrestrials September 16 GoGoSnapRadio(Sarah-Jane Moody and Jeremy Bleich)Claude Debussy, James Joyce and Alanis Morissette meet at the circus … September 23 Rich Halley 4(with Michael Vlatkovich, Clyde Reed and Carson Halley)Looking at the roots from the jazz tree’s upper branches