Crank Ensemble

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The Crank Ensemble by Larnie Fox, making new music easy

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The Crank Ensemble is a San Francisco-based performance group whose musicians create rhythmic and repetitive patterns by using handmade crank-operated machines. The instruments are constructed by artist Larnie Fox; each has a mounted piezo (contact microphone) to amplify its sound.

The ensemble of cranks creates layers of sound, resulting in a
range of a sparse new-music style "plinking" to melodic loopiness and hardcore noise. The Crank Ensemble has performed at numerous local spaces/events such as the Luggage Store, the LAB, the Hemlock Tavern, 12 Galaxies, at 21 Grand as part of the Edgetone Music Summit, Godwaffle Noise Pancakes, the Maker Faire, and at New Music Bay Area’s "Garden of Memory" columbarium walk-through event at Chapel of the Chimes.