Walter Kitundu, one of the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Grants makes some truly spectacular instruments.
This photo is of him playing his 1200 phonoharp, a mix of live and pre-recorded analogue signals. He describes it on his website as, ” incredibly versatile and can sound like bass guitar, a lap steel guitar, a hammered dulcimer, a drumset, chimes… many sounds are unique to this instrument. There are many ways to play it. The built in mixer and cross-fader allows cutting and scratching with the turntable and there is even a headphone jack for cueing records.”
There’s many more where that came from. Tons and tons of beautifully crafted pieces. Truly stunning.
L- has been attempting to train the fat cat to use the toilet. Just one of the many reasons why I love that girl.
We’re all about spending our time wisely around here. But we also like movies. Thankfully, here comes Movie a Minute to the rescue.
Armageddon
NASA: An asteroid is coming. We are in trouble.
Nerd: You must blow it up from the inside. Probably.
NASA: Let’s teach drillers to be astronauts, on account of drilling is too hard for astronauts to learn.
Bruce Willis: Instead for a ninjillion dollars, we will only do it if we don’t have to pay taxes anymore, because audiences can relate to that.
Audience: I can relate to that. Therefore, I love it.
The End
Is it just me, or are there actually a lot of new musical interfaces coming out recently? Maybe it’s one of those perception things. Like when you worry about losing your hair and suddenly everyone you see is bald. Or, rather, like when you met your first co-worker in a wheelchair, and then there’s people in wheelchairs all over the place. So innovation is like bald people in wheelchairs. Or bald wheelchairs.
Anyways, today’s new interface: Stanton’s Da Scratch, which Stanton claims will “change the DJ world forever.” I’m not exactly sure how a virtual turntable will turn the world upside down, but we’ll have to wait until tomorrow for the official unveiling to find out for sure. Maybe it will just mean less DJs with back aches. Either way, it’s still pretty neat looking, and I’m so easily taken by touch sensors. And blue.
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I just got off the phone with the bank. They informed me that somebody stole our credit card information and bought a thousand dollars worth of shoes. I think it was Kelly.
Continuing in my fervor for all things Raymond Scott, I am very excited about On to Something the documentary about his life that his son is currently working on. It looks amazing, but, as it’s not done yet, the trailer will have to do for now.
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