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Going to see this tonight, very excited. Sez Wikipedia:

Mantra is a composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was composed in 1970 and premiered in autumn of the same year in Donaueschingen. The work is scored for two ring-modulated pianos; each player is also equipped with a chromatic set of crotales (antique cymbals) and a wood block, and one player is equipped with a short-wave radio producing morse code or a magnetic tape recording of morse code.

(via New England Conservatory)

update: Whoa.

A composition by Iannis Xenakis, Pleaides was originally commissioned for Les Percussions de Strasbourg, to premiere at the Opera du Rhin in May 1979. A sextet for percussion, it is here performed by the Yale Percussion Group.

I’ve embedded the first video of seven above. Think how nice it would be to have a little avant-garde percussion concert right now at your desk! (Click the via link below to listen to the rest.)

(via Rhizome)

This enormous speaker setup is only part of the Grateful Dead’s “wall of sound.” More photos here. (via audiojunkies)

This enormous speaker setup is only part of the Grateful Dead’s “wall of sound.” More photos here.

(via audiojunkies)