Sunday, 28 July 2013
167 Theremins inside Russian dolls play 'Symphony No. 9 Boogie'
Have you ever heard of a theremin? If you haven’t, you’re definitely not alone. A theremin, thanks to Wikipedia, is an instrument patented in 1928 by a Russian inventor named Léon Theremin that can be played without touching it. Watching someone play it is almost like watching someone play with a marionette or conduct an orchestra, until you hear the electronic, vaguely piano-like noise that comes out of it in time with the player’s careful hand movements. Really, it looks a bit like magic.
Now imagine one of those russian dolls that fit inside each other, also known as a Matryoshka or Russian nesting dolls. Good. Now picture a theremin inside of a Matryoshka. You’ve just pictured, or tried to picture, a very real instrument called a Matryomin.
In China, there are ensembles that play the Matryomin in groups. One such ensemble is called Matryomin ensemble “Da.” A video of the group’s performance of Beethoven’s 9th appeared on NPR today, and watching the 167 members play together simultaneously is quite a site. In this video they play Beethoven’s 9th with their own added “boogie,” which kicks in around the 1:30 mark.
Watch the full performance above. You can watch more Matryomin videos here.
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A Blog entry written by Phil, from Rainforest Expeditions: http://bit.ly/12dia4C
A Blog entry written by Phil, from Rainforest Expeditions: http://bit.ly/12dia4C
Saturday, 27 July 2013
NUKEMAP
HERE
Dropping a 'Little Boy' in the centre of Melbourne certainly would get me in my suburb of Fairfield
Radical thinkers: Wilhelm Reich's Sex-Pol
Wilhelm Reich, one of the early pioneers of Freudian psychoanalysis,
wrote widely on sexuality, feminism and politics. But he is most famous
for his 'inventions', the now discredited orgone energy accumulator and
the cloudbuster. At the Freud museum in London, Stella Sandford discusses Reich's legacy and asks if he has anything to teach us today
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♪♫ Atoms For Peace - The Clock
Recorded live at London's Roundhouse on 25th July 2013. Watch and
download the whole set or individual tracks in high quality MP4 on http://www.soundhalo.com
Friday, 26 July 2013
♪♫ Purity Supreme - Always ∀lready (EP)
Purity Supreme was the collaboration project name used by Leslie Winer & Christophe Van Huffel for this 4 song EP recorded over a period of a few days in May 2011.
Track Listing:
Milk St.
Half Past 3 Cowboy
Famous Inhabitants of Louth
Dunderhead
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Videos by Sébastien Chou
As Leslie said on Facebook:
Pleases me to note that the (very few) reviews for this record were significantly more generous when the reviewer was under the impression I was a MAN !
Get a load of this purple prose for the Man Singing:
"The main attraction to the listener is the singing-intoning voice of the lead fellow, who may be the French half of the act. Cracked and dusty his vocal cords be, whether through mannered device or naturally desiccated, trying to convey the effect of a dissolute and broken man. Just right for followers of Wm Burroughs we might think, but this sort of prose-speak-sing also shades into areas once occupied by Nick Cave or Michael Gira, as does the lugubrious and dense content. The lyrics are highly ambiguous, even when they seem straight to the point and use plain English at all times. I like to hear multiple repetitions of slightly mysterious phrases in songs and Purity Supreme does this trick very well. The first song keeps saying “It’s Nice To See You”, when the mood of the singer and indeed the music itself is expressing the exact opposite of that sentiment, and it’s a song that wishes we would just go home and stay there. Angst-ridden steel strings and a relentless drum pattern make this snarky item a vicious twin brother to Leonard Cohen’s later works. The second song is slightly more recognisable as something a weary Lou Reed might have recorded at any time between 1975 and 1988, and with its basic guitar and drum sound could almost pass for any decent slab of indie art-rock music. On the flip, even more words and more repetitions in the two remaining songs. So many words, these songs are more like recited poems or short stories really, very much like a slightly nastier Tom Waits or what we might hear if Charles Bukowski turned his throaty husk to song. Indeed the words are privileged by appearing in full on the front cover. And there’s a very strong cinematic component too, with vivid film noir images somehow encoded in the very sound of the record. Narrators alluding to scenes unknown, to backstories we cannot know, and delivered with a snarling curl to the lip at all times. The creators here are the French musician Christophe Van Huffel, and the American writer-composer Leslie Winer. Quite unusual, muscular, and opaque music from these offbeat modern beatniks."
#SlightlyNastierTomWaits - I'll take it ! Damn, son.
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