Inside a grand piano, five mobile telephones rest directly on the strings in five different areas of the piano soundboard. Calling any one of the telephones activates its vibration alarm, thereby directly playing the strings on which the phone happens to be laying.
Audience members choose which parts of the piano are played by calling any of five telephone numbers — either from their own mobile phones or from the provided stationary telephones. Contact microphones attached to the piano’s soundboard pick up the sounds of the mobile phones vibrating the piano strings and pass them on to a voltage-controlled modular synthesizer.
An oversized washing line that Dal Negro erected in the wilds of the French countryside with its lines replaced by large strips of rubber, reminiscent of a loosely-strung guitar, is the sound source used in this recording. The drying rack as time catcher and atmospheric wave sensor. Side B uses the same method, but overlays the recording with Vivaldi's "Spring" from "The Four Seasons."
Purple Rain . . . Thanks Greg. The awesome Nils Lofgren solo certainly lifts it up to a higher level. I've never been a huge B.S. (!) fan, but Nils' unique use of overtones . . . WOW !
@rostasi, re: the washing line, that reminds me of and makes me want to listen again to that recording someone made of the wind in telephone wires in the Australian outback...I think it was on an album called Austral Voices or something...must dig it out.
Just finished this 3 CD set at work, one of the Fantastic Voyage label "Sugar" series, none of which have disappointed (got from Amazon other sellers for reasonable price)
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Cuneiform Releases for May/June 2016
Eva Reiter : The Lichtenberg Figures
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop. For fans of the Civil Wars.
Today I learned Jesca Hoop "moved to Los Angeles where she became a nanny to Tom Waits' children."
- Featuring the brilliant Shara Worden !
Inside a grand piano, five mobile telephones rest directly
on the strings in five different areas of the piano soundboard.
Calling any one of the telephones activates its vibration alarm,
thereby directly playing the strings on which the phone
happens to be laying.
Audience members choose which parts of the piano are played
by calling any of five telephone numbers — either from their
own mobile phones or from the provided stationary telephones.
Contact microphones attached to the piano’s soundboard pick
up the sounds of the mobile phones vibrating the piano strings
and pass them on to a voltage-controlled modular synthesizer.
Nicholas Bernier - Les Arbres
Mogwai - Atomic
An oversized washing line that Dal Negro erected in the wilds of the French countryside
with its lines replaced by large strips of rubber, reminiscent of a loosely-strung guitar,
is the sound source used in this recording. The drying rack as time catcher and
atmospheric wave sensor. Side B uses the same method, but overlays the recording
with Vivaldi's "Spring" from "The Four Seasons."
And I enjoyed the free copy so much
ps once again Terrific!
Purple Rain . . . Thanks Greg.
The awesome Nils Lofgren solo certainly lifts it up to a higher level.
I've never been a huge B.S. (!) fan, but Nils' unique use of overtones . . . WOW !
David Toop's Star-Shaped Biscuit
Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony
followed by
The King - We are King
followed by
Bob Mould - Patch the Sky
Some of my 2106 purchases from E Music
Intense! Side 3 starts out with Torturing Nurse
ps Lots of different things here. Great noise!
also, I'm going to the rotation as there's some things to do.
Shara Worden, Andrew Ondrejcak, BOX - You Us We All
Jesca Hoop - Undress
Craig