On this day in 1912, the Paint Creek Mine War began when West Virginia miners struck, demanding formal union recognition and fairer labor practices. The incident quickly escalated into one of the worst labor conflicts in U.S. history.
The event, also known as the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, centered on the area enclosed by two streams, Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. It is considered part of the "Coal Wars", a series of armed conflicts between workers and coal companies from the 1890s - 1930s in the United States.
The strike lasted for fourteen months, and over 5,000 workers participated. Notable labor organizer Mother Jones (shown) came to West Virginia to support the workers, organizing a secret march of 3,000 armed miners to the steps of the state capitol in Charleston to read a declaration of war to Governor William E. Glasscock.
The confrontation directly caused approximately fifty violent deaths from armed conflicts between miners and strike-breaking forces, as well as many more deaths indirectly caused by starvation and malnutrition among the striking miners. In terms of casualties, it was among the worst conflicts in American labor history.
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People that maybe understand this more than me, help me out, musical electrical engineer stuff I...guess:
So, I've got a noise/industrial thing going with a pal and he found a piano corpse. Essentially it's the body with the strings intact and in tension but certainly not in tune but the legs and keyboard are gone. We have found it makes really fucking cool noises when the strings are hit with drum mallets. So we wanna hook this up to an Amp and run run some homemade pedal through it. The piano strings are steel and my plans were that I have an old bass where pretty much everything that isn't the electronics is broken and I was just gonna hook that up to the inside of the piano. Would the pickups pick that up?
I barely know anything about this, but I'd expect that the pickup has a limited range (as in distance) on what it can pick up. I would treat it as a project to make a virtual instrument and get samples of each set of 3 or 4 notes at various dynamics, then scoot it over, etc.
DecentSampler is a great free tool for this, and I'm certain there are resources online for how to make one in that format. If you pull this off please please post it here and tag me.
You may need a DI box to make this work, or plug it into a guitar amp and stick a microphone in front of that. (Or both?)
Okay, this thing doesn't play notes anymore anyway and it's gonna be going through a pedal that will make it sound like buildings falling down, so the main concern here is volume. Also it's an expirement for shits and giggles. You're probably right that just running a mic is the best way to go tho. I just kinda feel like building a weird machine. Doing both is always an option. The piano is pretty wide so maybe I'd have to move a pickup to.the neck and add some wire there.
Edit: as far as samplers go, we have a bunch of old analog ones from the 80s and 90s we gathered from thrift shops and stuff. We're doing pretty much everything analog. I need to find a decade old SD card cause my good floor mic doesn't work with newer ones for reasons but when we record it'll be live off the floor. I can for sure upload some samples tho.
Yeah, I didn't know the specifics or your goals, but despite the strings not being tuned, the different sized strings and different dynamics will presumably differ from one another, by octave at the very least.
The virtual instrument/sampling idea was just because it sounds very difficult to move around. But yeah I'd definitely take any samples you grab and make digital because I will absolutely throw it into a sampler VST and fuck around with it if I get the chance. Or put it into Serum because it can convert a sample into a configurable synth.
I'll send back anything I come up with also. Creative sound design is a hobby of mine.
Can't really say I have any goal other than it making sounds nothing else can and it being really fucking loud. We don't plan on playing live for the most part and if we do we'll probably just improv something. It's harsh noise through homemade pedals and guitar feedback, drum samples, found sound recordings and one of a kind instruments. We've also got a 2 airplane cable stringed cigar box guitar best played with a bow and a theremin cube
There's plenty of shit I'd try even if it is not a pitched noise. Lay it on me when you get something.
Also, wear earplugs if it's very loud. Having your ears ring for the rest of your life is Very Annoying, to say the least.
Ohhh, my ears are fucked. I am an earplugs advocate as well and learned the hard way. DIY punk shows with guitars that sound like vacuum cleaners coming from full stacks in cellars mean I sleep with a really loud fan on.