Audio CD Exp0018. Published by Experimental Musical Instruments in 2007.

This is the newer of two audio CDs featuring instruments made by EMI's founder, Bart Hopkin. The other, Instrumentarium Hopkinis, is more familiarly musical in terms of melody, harmony, rhythm, grooves. This one is more textural, soundscape-ish, atmospheric. It contains 21 pieces featuring dozens of instruments of diverse types ranging from unusual to scarcely imaginable, including gurgle flutes, plosives, flex short strings, steady-on-stainless, mild steel, string-on-tine, trillium harp, stroked zither, formant changer, and many more. Those names won't mean much to you if you haven't yet heard the instruments, so let me just say that they're fresh and surprising and flavorful throughout, with moods ranging from sweet to obnoxious.

Audio CD: 21 Ways of Looking at Things
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Sounds from 21 Ways of Looking at Things

Excerpt from Trillium Harp & Flex Short Strings

Excerpt from Mvet-like Thing & Venusian Voices

Excerpt from Trombone Bell