Highly recommended, easily one of my favorite things I have posted in months. This “Feedback Raga”is an intense, Fourth World rhythmic drone created on a makeshift thumb piano, or kalimba. The device was made by **RP Collier** of Portland, Oregon. By his own explanation, the thumb piano is “made from a metal clamshell box with hairpin tines attached to a flat metal dish resonator,”the dish acting “like a feedback antenna.”A piezo microphone transforms the notes into dense, overtone rich columns of noise, and the feedback bends notes into one another and develops this overwhelming undercurrent of electric activity — an undercurrent of current. The picture above is from Collier’s [flickr.com](www.flickr.com/photos/41969054@N00/8582523035) set.
Track originally posted for free download at [soundcloud.com/rpcollier](https://soundcloud.com/rpcollier/feedback-raga). More of Collier’s music at [rpcollier.bandcamp.com](http://rpcollier.bandcamp.com/). Collier sent me the links via email earlier this week, right after I had posted the [Alarm Will Sound rendition of composer Asha Srinivasan’s chamber orchestra ragas](https://disquiet.com/2013/06/05/asha-srinivasan/).
With the artist’s permission, I uploaded a remix here:
https://soundcloud.com/l-a-j-1/power-raga-feedback-raga-remix