I Fall In Love With You Multiple Times

Sorry, Paul Dateh cannot hear you, he's kind-a bu-sy. Mostly because it must have taken approximately 7000000 hours to make this video.




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Living In Your Letters

John Cage replied personally to every letter ever sent to him.
("I fight each day a losing battle against paper," he wrote to Mr. William E. Ratliff.)
UbuWeb catalogues the Memogram Correspondences.

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

I have a friend who, as long as she stays with her current employer, gets 25% off an ice sculpture on the occasion of her wedding. She wants a working water wheel that dispenses champagne, but I think she should get this statue of Marilyn Monroe.



I mean, right?

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Strange Things Are Happening Everyday

I like when instruments are played non-conventionally. This looks like a particularly good time, ouais?

Time Has Told Me

University of Cincinnati Library, you are my favorite. Thank you for digitizing all two hundred and forty-two intact pages of the Spanish Antiphoner, a 16th-century book of Gregorian chants for choir. How beautiful!

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I'm A-Built For Comfort / I Ain't A-Built For Speed

Turns out, Flight of the Bumblebee is the preferred piece for breaking speed-records. Go figure.

David Garrett on violin (starts 5:30ish)




And then there's this one...complete with a disclaimer: "NOTE: This video is not meant for a good listening experience. It is played purely for speed."
Duly noted.



(Addendum: THIS. Thanks, Kevin!)

I Believe I Can Fly

Gao Hong is a pipa master / composer / proponent of fusion music and it is HIGH TIME I post this video.

Even The Sturgeon And The Ray / They Get The Urge And Start To Play

VENTS studies submarine volcanism and deep-sea ecosystems. In their spare time, they find unidentified (underwater) sounds. I like sounds.

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Bullies Used To Pick On Me Because I Sang In Choir

Sometimes my strange search results pay off. Yes, yes, that's right. It's an episode from "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" featuring Neil Patrick Harris singing his heart out as the evil villain who controls men with his dulcet tones, The Music Meister! Brought to you by Fridays, mornings, and the letter M.



(ps. Depraved-Orpheus? Power-of-music? I'm not going to go there, but now you're going to think about it.)

All Around Me Are Familiar Faces

I wanted to get you a present, and I decided on Luciano Pavarotti's eyebrows (please see 0:24).



Forget women; those eyebrows are mobile, that's what I think.

Throw Your Hands Up

Hey Carls, I wasn't responsible for this!
Do you think they made sure the piano was dead? // Do you think they made their friends spend five hours the night before the performance scraping toxic paint off a last-minute substitution instrument? // At least I bought you beer.



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The Rhythm Made Me Do It

And also the forks. They're tricky like that.

Gravité from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.

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(grand merci à Maureen)

Shut Up And Drive

Scene: Lancaster, CA, Avenue G.



The Civic Musical Road
Grooves in the road make some Rossini-noise! It started out as a Honda commercial, but (UNDERSTANDABLY, I THINK) nobody wanted to see it go. I hear tell 55mph gets you the best sound quality.

(There are three other musical roads in the world: score one each for Japan, South Korea, and Holland.)

How Many Say I

Oh, can you just imagine being in this room! I'm all shivery even thinking about it!

Piano Phasing (for 50 pianists) by Kristoffer Zegers.

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The Lobster Quadrille

I could listen (/okay, have listened) to Matmos all day long. Music concrète meets electronica? I'm in love.

An excerpt from an interview with NewMusicBox:

We were making a biographical portrait of the writer Patricia Highsmith....As we thought about what else this arrangement needs, we looked into Highsmith's life and a bunch of details started to emerge. She really loved snails. She collected snails her whole life, wrote short stories about snails, so we knew we wanted to collaborate with snails somehow or get snails involved in the process of making the music. The first thing that we thought of is that the shell of the snail is shaped a little bit like a French horn. So we got somebody to play a French horn. But then I thought, well, that's not good enough. We need to really work with snails directly, but they're very quiet so it's difficult to get a snail to, you know, pipe up. You could crush one, but that would be sort of wrong, ethically. I decided to set up a situation in which the movement of snails would have a musical outcome. We got a light-sensitive theremin that I bought on eBay, and we aimed a laser at it. Then, in a totally dark room, we put the snails inside a glass tube. They would crawl up the glass and as they would interrupt the path of the laser, that would affect the pitch of the theremin. We then sped that up and turned it into a sort of crazy solo that is played by snails.

They're also known for sampling fresh hair cuttings and the neural activity of crayfish. Like I said: this is love.

Ah Get On The Floor And Dance

Maureen is right: how do I get this installed in my room?
Designed by Theo Watson for the first Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival (2006); you control the music by walking on the surface of this floor/record player.

Vinyl Workout from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

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Leave The Audience In Silence Like My Name Was John Cage

It's easy to talk about Cage's 4'33" - but have you ever actually seen a performance all the way through? I THOUGHT NOT. This one is a (rockin' (sort of)) full orchestral version.

To Me You Are A Work Of Art

Ghost in the Machine- Lauryn Hill
Cassette tape on canvas, 2010.

Beethoven
Paperwork, 2010.


Erika Iris Simmons does amazing things.


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Blue In The Face

Rock-album-cover-typography revealed: Rock That Font.

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