It’s kind of like a thumb piano, but it jingles and rattles in unexpected ways when you pluck it. It was created by Bart Hopkin, a Bay Area experimental musician and the subject of this series I produced for Jim Metzner’s Pulse of the Planet. In this segment, Hopkin talks about the freedom of creating music on an instrument that’s never been played before.

Sounds – Rattle Tyne: Creating new music on an instrument that’s never been heard before.