artist: THIERRY MADIOT
title: Ziph - Musique Pour Trompes Et Ballons
label: Prele
country: France
format: CD
title: Ziph - Musique Pour Trompes Et Ballons
label: Prele
country: France
format: CD
"This is an interesting CD, although when listening to it for the first time, I would suggest listening in
shuffle mode, or skip track 1 since it is the least interesting of the entire release. I feel if you're going to
debut a 'new' instrument, you should start by displaying some of it's more interesting qualities instead of
using a track of sounds that could have been made using a variety of other instruments or objects. The
same could be said about the sample provided on the Prele website." DL - and/OAR
"By dismantling his trombone, to blow in it in a reverse way, to plug pipes and rubber balloons on it,
Thierry Madiot ended up inventing a new instrument: Ziph. Seemingly simple, the Ziph only consists of
3 elements, a balloon between a roll of floor covering and a ring. The roll of plastic, twisted form a horn
that provides amplification and harmonic multiplication. The ring keeps the balloon open in the way it
gives the instrument a mouthpiece of brass instrument style. But most astonishing is the balloon that
operate between its two parts of the membrane some vibrating, is analogous way as double reed (oboe
family). From there, everything is complicated by the fact that the balloon is long and elastic. Thus this
double reed soft can be stretched, kneaded, triturated, multiplying the ways of playing. Consequently
that instrument is an unclassifiable hybrid that has something to see with the trombones, brass, oboe and
not only. As a contemporary instrument, it is not focused on the pitch and thus it is sometimes close to
electronic instruments more than a son of the family of wind instruments. Then as the sound is
generated by a kind of reed, the instrument generates harmonics which are in return encouraged by the
horn, and it result a granular signal not to say sometimes distorted. Ziph is an acoustic instrument that
sometimes pass for an electronic instrument. The instruments vary in size from 2 to 20 m and for this
record, it is played in by a band of 2 to 13 musicians." (Prele)
shuffle mode, or skip track 1 since it is the least interesting of the entire release. I feel if you're going to
debut a 'new' instrument, you should start by displaying some of it's more interesting qualities instead of
using a track of sounds that could have been made using a variety of other instruments or objects. The
same could be said about the sample provided on the Prele website." DL - and/OAR
"By dismantling his trombone, to blow in it in a reverse way, to plug pipes and rubber balloons on it,
Thierry Madiot ended up inventing a new instrument: Ziph. Seemingly simple, the Ziph only consists of
3 elements, a balloon between a roll of floor covering and a ring. The roll of plastic, twisted form a horn
that provides amplification and harmonic multiplication. The ring keeps the balloon open in the way it
gives the instrument a mouthpiece of brass instrument style. But most astonishing is the balloon that
operate between its two parts of the membrane some vibrating, is analogous way as double reed (oboe
family). From there, everything is complicated by the fact that the balloon is long and elastic. Thus this
double reed soft can be stretched, kneaded, triturated, multiplying the ways of playing. Consequently
that instrument is an unclassifiable hybrid that has something to see with the trombones, brass, oboe and
not only. As a contemporary instrument, it is not focused on the pitch and thus it is sometimes close to
electronic instruments more than a son of the family of wind instruments. Then as the sound is
generated by a kind of reed, the instrument generates harmonics which are in return encouraged by the
horn, and it result a granular signal not to say sometimes distorted. Ziph is an acoustic instrument that
sometimes pass for an electronic instrument. The instruments vary in size from 2 to 20 m and for this
record, it is played in by a band of 2 to 13 musicians." (Prele)
