This post reminds me of Performance Workshop a little but it is interesting none the less.
You may or may not have seen this TV ad but it involves professional musicians playing parts of a car and making, surprise surprise, music.
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Ode To A Ford
Posted in instruments, listening, performance on 23 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
Posted in discussion, improvisation, instruments on 29 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
Check this out: http://music.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/nov/28/vegetable.orchestra.
Definitely an improvisation worth considering. This may give you new ideas about instruments.
I have seen them live in Belfast.
They were great.
Roads as Musical Instruments
Posted in discussion, instruments, music, performance on 15 November 2007 | 7 Comments »
Hey everybody. Check this article in the Guardian out. Does this push your ideas of what constitutes a musical instrument, a performance or even music?
What makes an object an instrument?
Posted in discussion, found objects, instruments, what is music?, tagged instrument on 4 October 2007 | 13 Comments »
Today my musical career was in the pink rabbit hands of duracell; keeping my hand fan going on and on and on. On a serious note I really enjoyed the group exercises that we did today, its amazing what a few people can do with random objects and simple inter-linking, complementing rhythms. One has to [...]
