Chords for Casia Interviews Jesse Stewart at the Ottawa Folk Festival

Good morning, we're just outside the dance tent at the 2009 Ottawa Folk Festival and I'm here with Jesse [Eb] Stewart.
This instrument was invented in the 1960s by a man named Richard Waters.
So it's called the Waterphone in part because of the name of the inventor
and also because it's normally played with water inside of it.
I don't know if you can hear the [A] water sloshing [Gm] around.
It can be played in a number of different ways.
One way is it can be [G] bowed, it can be [C] bowed like this.
And what happens when I bow it, I'll [D] tilt it, the water [Gm] will slosh around inside
and it will kind of bend to pitch and create a kind of echo effect. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] It's _ _ _ quite [G] amazing that somebody can invent an instrument like this.
Where did they even come up with the idea?
[Gm] Well, I'm not exactly [Eb] sure, but I think Richard said a couple of things that he had in mind.
There's an old instrument called [Cm] a nail violin [N] with metal [Eb] nails that [G] are plucked and bowed.
And he [C] said that was I think part of the reference, [Gb] part of the inspiration [G] for this instrument.
And I think also maybe there's a type of water drum, [A] I think from Nepal, [G] that he was thinking of as well.
But then he came up with this idea.
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_ What are some of the instruments that you've personally invented? _
Well, I've made quite a few instruments.
Probably the most, I guess, complex of those instruments is a marimba made of stone, but it's tuned in eighths of a tone.
So instead of having 12 tones per octave like on a piano, there's 48 tones per octave.
_ _ _ _ So _ _ _ _ you were involved in the creation of this instrument.
You're involved with a student-led project here for the festival as well with [Fm] balloons.
Can you tell me a bit about [C] that?
There's a group called the Balloon Orchestra that _ started in one of my classes.
I teach music at Carleton University in Ottawa.
One of the questions that I posed to the class was, you know, well, you know, living in the 21st century,
maybe we need to expand our conception of instrumentation because nowadays you can use just about anything.
Well, I asked them as a class to come up with an ensemble that would include everyone in the class, including myself,
but would be kind of innovative in its approach to instrumentation.
So the result of that was the Balloon Orchestra, which uses latex balloons as an instrument.
Well, let me say, balloons are a remarkably [Fm] versatile sound producer.
You can get a lot of different, do a lot of different things with [C] latex balloons.
Is it common for some [G] of the balloons to pop as [C] you're doing your orchestra?
Yeah, _ that's a common occurrence, yeah.
But it becomes part of the music when that happens. _ _ _ _ _
Everybody was really excited about this [Fm] project and they'd like to come back next year and do it again.
Yeah, sure.
I'm open to that.
[C] The response was, I think we were all surprised by the level of enthusiasm, let's say.
The audience was very enthusiastic, which was nice. _ _
_ _ Thank you very much.
It was nice to meet you. _ _