PRA Declassified

We were all very impressed with the level of creative thinking put forward in our recent call out for ‘animal instrument’ ideas as part of The Cat Piano DVD giveaway.

While we offered to sketch out one of the winning ideas one of the entrants, Daniel Shepley, saved us the trouble. I’ve included his ideas below….thanks Daniel.

Some of the other ideas offered by our readers included:

“The A-Corgi-On” from Will Spartalis:

One end of a simple accordion/concertina is strapped to the rear end of a male Welsh Corgi in heat. The musician merely stands next to the Corgi, presents his/her leg, and waits for the inevitable hump. The repeated vertical movement of said Corgi suspends and compresses said accordion, creating a monotonous hee-haw of passionate musical beauty.

“The Panda-Tamba-rine” from Levi George:

Fans of music, prepare yourself for the awesome musical power of the Panda-Tamba-riene! How does this note worthy piece of percussion work? Essentially it looks like a normal tambourine. In fact, it is exactly a tambourine, with one important difference! Instead of using your hand to hit the tambourine like a common chump, you just hit the tambourine over the head of a panda to make those zils sing! And the Panda will probably moan or something.

“The Mar-stomp-ial” from Jonathan Draysey:

Combining “Stomp” the performance art with famous Australian marsupials – it’s so much more than an instrument. For instance as the performers slam their feet onto the stage they scream in pain as the quills of the live echidna’s pierce their flesh – the poor marsupials themselves provide an entertaining backing track as they too join in the chorus of pain.

At the time of writing the previous newsletter, I didn’t realise that one of the sections cut from the original ‘Cat Piano’ poem by Eddie included reference to a few twisted intruments. Here’s the paragraph below that didn’t make it in the final. (Imagine a Nick Cave narration while reading…)

And what shall we discover there?
Uncovering plans too horrid to bare
An awful orchestra of abominable instruments;
A cobra flute, a lobster lute
A mouse organ and monkey drums and a pair of Armadillo maracas,
A tuna tuba, a tiger trombone
Even an alligator gramaphone.

Also, Daniel Shepley (the artist featured above) also has a couple other things online for you to check out.

He just entered an animtion for the ‘make your own doritos ad’ competition so please help him out with a vote. It’s called “The Bad Comedian” and you can find it at: www.doritos.com.au

Oh yeah, and he also has some t-shirts up at:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/chknman

Thanks everyone for your replies. DVDs are on the way to the winners!