What is It?

Representation of seismic waves, with water wave (tsunami) superimposed?

I like that!

Its the sound wave, the sound when the bow whistles, whooshes and thuds.

Its a recursive bow as one can see.

Compression wave?

IdeaSmith is on the money with sound waves...

So what is the generic name for sound waves of the entertainment variety...

Then what genre?
And for the star prize the actual piece that is being represented?

Del

Its Beethoven's 9. Symphonie. It is for three instruments. The middle line is the tact/drums. The long sticks represent the bass and the wave is the violines.

It's a Deum de Deo (Dé donde Diere).

When I'm in your situation, I just keep going, then when my work takes a recognisable shape, is when I name it.

Is there also a cat in a box somewhere? I'm seeing particles and waves....

You need to get the genre of music first to have any chance of naming it..

Mind it's one of the most famous pieces of it genre (A one hit wonder in 1961)

Del

OK I knew its not classic. Its Rock n Roll.

I have seen that wave somewhere.

Is it ...

NO its Blues

Its the Wiggy Wagga Bowmans Blues!

or it is

http://tunecaster.com/artists/s/string-a-longs.html

One of these for sure!

Telstar by the Tornadoes?

I love it! It would be a good representation of "Ghost Riders in The Sky".

The intro should be about 8 bars long, I cut it down to 2 to keep the piece a workable size.

In order to visualise the beat I wired up a scrap of veroboard with alternate tracks to zero volts and the others via a 470k resistor to 5v.

By tapping out the beat on this pad I could see it on my oscilloscope (done at work in my lunch break of course) . It was pressure sensitive so I got an amplitude and time trace

The 'scope doesn't have a print output, so I had to sketch it....

I got it close enough

The

Del

I'm going for the instrumental version of Ghost riders in the sky by the Ramrods

(But I see I've been beaten to it)

OR

Pretty little angel eyes by Curtis Lee.

Just as an aside: how did Jimmy Wisner (Kokomo) get an instumental (Asia minor) banned by the BBC?

Runaway by Del Shannon?

Nope, but I like the name reference...
Mind, the other part of my name could be considered a clue?

I've dropped a few genre clues in already... mind you've go to be on the ball to spot 'em.

Del

That's got to be Stranger on the shore then: Acker Bilk.

I know you said a one-hit wonder song from 1961, but In think it works pretty well for 'Stairway to Heaven', too.

Surely it would have to be the William Tell overture or the theme to Robin Hood.

Telstar.

Cold...

Cold...

Wiki says it has a "catchy blues-scale ********* melody", and that's the waggly piece of heat bent Yew.

But it ain't blues

Del

********* = saxophone, then. 5/4 should've given it away.

WOOO WE HAVE A WINNER!

The prize tine of tuna is in the post...

(it may have got slightly opened and a bit eaten...)

I saw Dave Brubeck live at the Barbican a few years back

... nice

Del

Far too esoteric for me!

I would never have come close.

How did you do that?

It was the thought of tuna that spurred me on.

That's plain fishy!

Well, I guess I would have been off base with my guess:

EATING 4 TWO (The Tapeworm Song) - YouTube

Seriously, it is a beautiful work of art.

Waves and ripples in a cast iron bath, perhaps?

It looks like the yellow pegs on top of a counting 'grid' represent a metronome or a beat.

The golden ascending pipes (or rods) represent rhythm-chords, and the white, waving, horizontal floating leaf represent a melody

Clearly you are sick of the imperial - metric debate and devised your own measuring system. 6 balls equals yew. 4 Rods = 1/3 yew, 2 rods and black balls = 1/2 yew etc. This is so obvious and easy i see it being yewsed all over the world.
Jim

As you already had an result before I read the post it takes a bit of the fun away, but my immediate thought was "The field of the Cloth of Gold". A representation of Agincourt after the battle with the field littered in spent arrows and a triumphant banner blowing in the breeze.

It represents your hobby "Bow & Arrows".

I guess that it represents a couple of bars from a piece of music.

Yup it's music.. the real question is what genre and exactly what piece.

Someone has the answer already, but i won't point it out in case others wish to keep guessing.

Del

I'll fall for it...

She loves yew ...Beatles....

It's a ping-pong ball range (balls blown up by air) for Del's target practice!

jt.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

William Tell? (overture) Robin Hood?

IIn any event, it is sculpture (art) and I like it.

I assume the base is wood.

I'm curious about the other materials.

Hi, The base is 3/4" ply with copious filling,undercoat rubbing down and sprayed black gloss.

The shorter verticals are meat skewers, bamboo I think. The taller brassy verticals are brass rod. The waggly strip is Yew heartwood heat bent by hand and then the bends were tightened up by strapping it to a former cut from a scrap of ply and given more heat.

The beads I bought off E-bay as a pack of multi coloured beads.

Del

Oh... and the thin brass waggle is some 2mm brass tube I bought to make the maquette, which I then hammered flat and bent to shape using my super powers.

It locates in a slot sawn into one of the brass rods, it's soldered with soft solder on the underside, the soft solder is then overpainted with brass coloured acrylic (even tho' it was only visible from below). The other end pushes into the base into a correctly shaped and sized hole made by hammering in a nail which had been filed to the correct shape.

Del

I hadn't even noticed that bit until you said.

Thanks.

Your talents are amazing.

Aw schucks cheers.

I like the way craft and engineering skills are transferable.

At the moment I'm looking at making a jig for work, I'll make it out of scraps of timber etc to get it working and then make the final thing in something more durable.

Del

And it can't be easy with stumpy little paws.

I think it is a resurrected version of the medieval Hungarian 'kertinkityplinker'.

It is held sitting down laying across the lap with a hand on each end. The pins are horizontal with the tips pointing slightly upwards.

A marble is placed on the pins.

It is played by gently rocking it in a to-and-fro seesaw action causing the marble to run from end-to-end.

The tune is obtained by causing the marble to strike the pins of the appropriate length.

It produces a delightful tune to the ears of a musician indicative of the wave motion of the sounding board - but to the uninitiated novice it is more like kertinkityplink-kertinkityplink-kertinkityplink-kertinkityplink..... the name of the instrument.

Art means something?

Even as an artist you are a nice, literal engineer type.

Representing the various aspects of the female menstrual cycle.

Watch it!!!

Nice work Del.

Is that your design or were you commissioned to fabricate only?

All my own work. I was invited to submit a piece for the exhibition, and I liked the theme.

I even delved into the loft and dug out something I did when I was about 15 yrs old at school. We had to design an LP cover on the theme Jazz, it was very 60's but not bad!

Del

Another masterpiece, but it is sooooo annoying. OK, I've read the answer, but...firstly I cannot stop tapping my foot whilst humming it, and secondly I keep looking at the pic and thinking of tunes that might fit !

You have a whole new genre of sculpture there. It would be amazing to visit a gallery and see a range done on the same basis. A sort of ' put on the cans if you give up' thing that schools could visit. Not just schools (I like to hit on them) but people at large.

When that is on display, will visitors have the chance to listen ? Oldies, like most of us, will know when told - it would be fantastic if those not familiar could hear the tune when they give up. It's a perfect form in interactive art - nobody will be able to resist picking up some headphones, even if they guess the tune.

Yeah the Cat household are all going "Bada ba da da da Bada ba da da da"

Del

You complete sod ! It's in my head right now and driving me nuts....as soon as I hit the key it will come to mind.....arghh......

I can pace around for five mins and risk a 'time-out' from CR4's editor...

Oooph, it is so...the second I log out of here and stomp into the garden, that will click. The real pain ? I cannot stop singing it (if you can call it singing, it's a manummana thing).

Whilst I stomp off in fury, do you recall the tune for 'Ask the Family' ? Noggin the Nog ? What cat did that kid have in the TV testcard ? This is a first, I'm hesitating to hit the key because it's just too blatent for help. Noooooo.

I give up. If I'm not back later, it's because i've just got up and headbutted the nearest thing in sight. The last "da da da da" is infuriating me.

I am only giving up because the CR4 edit box will get me.....

Ear worm cures are available.

.....Using the latest in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we've been able to allow our users to "unhear" songs by.......

A roller coaster?

I thought it is the representation of the music played on the "singing roads " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCTk8Yp01A

Cool

Del

An amusement park after the fleas leave the circus.