Heard this on Billy Jam's show on WFMU yesterday.
[ thx Billy ]
[ thx Ralph! ]
"Ustad Ali Akbar Khan said that when most musicians came to the radio station, they sang their raga and went home. When Abdul Wahid Khan would come, however, he would sing his scheduled broadcast and then just continue for 20 hours or so. People would come and go, and he would still be singing."
"Khansahib forbade recordings of his performances to avoid imitation by other singers."
"Abdul Wahid Khan accepted very few disciples, among them Pandit Pran Nath who became one of the most important disciples through his ceaseless practice, natural talent and extraordinary ability to serve his master. For almost 20 years he served his Guru and in 1970 came to the USA where he has many disciples in New York, California and Oregon including the American composers La Monte Young and Terry Riley."
[ thx Mike McGonigal ]
[ thx Erik ]
On half of Steve Reich's latest cd, Double Sextet, he works with New York City's Bang On A Can.
Here's some nice footage of Reich rehearsing with the group.
[ thx Christian Carey ]
[ Thx Xenia ]
From the video's description:
David Garland plays a 1980's classic on a 12 string guitar modified by his son, Kenji. This guitar uses an electroacoustic feedback loop (pickup in, transducer out ---i think the transducer is under the bridge?)
wow, amazing! truly my fav. oldschool dgarland jam, now singing in a totally different light thanks to Kenji's amazing work. 3garlands 4eva
[ thx Daniel ]
DREW CRAMER OF PERSONAL & THE PIZZAS
What's the best/worst thing that's ever happened to your band that involves pizza?
We chained some guys.
Have you ever worked in the pizza industry?
I AM the pizza industry.
Why is your band currently working in the pizza industry?
'Cause we get to whip chains around and chain people with 'em.
If you could eat only one pizza ingredient for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Chains.
Do you ever fight over the last slice of pizza?
Is this a trick question? Yeah, we fight, WITH CHAINS!!
Chicago style or New York style, and why?
New York, 'cause we get to chain people over there.
Do you eat the crust? If not, what do you do with it?
No. I chain it.
smoking machine via designboom
smoking machine’ by kristoffer myskja, 2007 the mechanical sculptures of norweigan artist kristoffer myskja are all somewhat strange, but the strangest of all is the ‘smoking machine’, which literally smokes cigarettes. the artwork features a small device made from brass that most prominently features a ramp of cigarettes. each cigarette is gravity fed onto a holder, where it is lit and slowly smoked by an air valve that is electrically driven. as the gears turn, the cigarette slowly disappears until only the filter is left. the machine then ejects the cigarette and ashes onto the floor below, loading the next one into the holder.
via adafruit.com
"There is no solution because there is no problem." - Marcel Duchamp
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