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Henry Dagg’s “Sharpsichord” is a big barrel harp with two enormous metal amplifying cones and a hand crank. In this video you can watch him play “The Long and Winding Road” (along with a singer who sings along through a copper megaphone). Mechanical music, alive and well!
You can see another video and read more about it at BBC News.
update: and from tbon, a perhaps more awesome version that replaces the vocal line with a musical saw part:
Cathy Berberian: “Ticket to Ride”
This is opera singer Cathy Berberian’s cover version of the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride,” off of her album of Beatles covers, Revolution.
Cathy Berberian was a darling of the experimental music scene back in the day, married to Luciano Berio, writing her own experimental music, and performing works written for her by John Cage.
I don’t know what else to write. This either says something about the effects of taking a holiday blog break or something about the effects of listening to A WHOLE ALBUM OF OPERATIC BEATLES COVERS.
Welcome to 2010.
