Here’s an amazing Halloween tribute to the late Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) from friend Shawn Feeney. It’s also featured on Wired.com Readers’ Best Geek-o’-Lanterns.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Banjo Salad Surgery
Banjoist Eddie Adcock underwent surgery to treat a tremor in his hand and played the banjo throughout. The video is bizarre as one would expect, but the idea seems perfectly reasonable to me: musical instrument as mind/body feedback sensor. It’s precisely why I play the banjo.
Thanks to Chris Mann for sending this story my way. Check out Mann’s online audio combinatrix at http://www.theuse.info.
Where I’ve Been Hiding Out…
I’ve been busy as Opening Coordinator for the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. We’re two-thirds of the way through the grand opening, so I’m finally finding some time to breathe.