Waterphone Links

http://www.jazzcookin.com/  This is drummer Lee Charlton's web site. Lee and Richard have been friends for 50 years and it was Lee who encouraged Richard to get involved with building and playing instruments in the late 60s. Lee and Richard formed the "Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band" producing two recordings, "ONE" and "Hole in the Sky".

"ONE" CD release in England. Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band.
http://www.stalk.net/paradigm/pd20.html

Gary Knowlton - Richard's next door neighbor when he lived in Sebastopol, CA. Gary is a multi-instrumentalist musician who has a recording studio "Gatmo" where Richard has played and recorded a lot of music. www.gatmo.net Gatmo Studios - Is a room where lo-fi sci-fi mprovised music is recorded on experimental and traditional instruments.

Mike Knowlton - Gary's brother who plays an out there, cooking guitar and is a fine arts painter extraordinary.www.michaelknowlton.com

Tom Nunn, author, instrument designer, musician. Designs, builds, and plays the hell out of his creations. Contact Tom at ten@hassard.com

Bart Hopkin's - author, instrument inventor/designer, musician and publisher of "Experimental Musical Instruments" - which is a vast resource on the physics of musical sound making at http://www.windworld.com

Todd Barton, composer/musician/teacher who has created a number of diverse pieces utilizing the waterphone in combination with other instruments. Check Todd out www.toddbarton.com or listen to some of his work with the waterphone here http://homepage.mac.com/toddbarton/FileSharing2.html

Jim Nollman, The brave soul who takes Richard's instruments into the water and calls Orcas and other Cetecean. It was Jim who first called whales in Hawaii with one of Richard's waterphones which was a breakthrough in interspecies communication. http://interspecies.com/pages/soundsystem.html

http://www.o-art.org/history/70's/Composers/Nollman/1DolDr-dol.html
Jim writes about playing the waterphone for dolphins and  one of his efforts in inter-species communication.

http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/review.asp?ID=661  A  review of Lalo Schifrin's eerie and unsettling music for "The  Amityville Horror" sound track.

http://innova.mu/notes/640.htm Barry Schrader's CD "Beyond" in  which he talks about his use of the waterphone and "Duke", a pot bellied pig who performs on keyboards, violin, guitar, and the xylophone.

Terra Nova - Experimental Folk-Rock featuring Waterphones- http://www.terranovatunes.com

The Robert Minden Ensemble - http://www.lostsound.com/index.html

Not Breathing - Dave Wright's music site - http://www.notbreathing.com

Kim Atkinson - world percussionists! http://www.pulsewave.com

Pete Lockett - Versatile and prolific percussionist http://www.petelockett.com

Odd Music website is a great resource and discussion group.- http://www.oddmusic.com

http://www.southernartistry.org/Richard_Waters This is Richard's page with Southern Artistry which show cases outstanding southern artists.

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