Yessss, more media related to this exhibit! More birds here.

[I’m still in the thesis trenches, to emerge…eventually]

(via Networked Music Review)

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Remko Scha — Machine Guitars (Shake)

This set of tracks was made by hanging guitars in the configurations diagrammed above and letting machines play them. I want all of these as loops in a Buddha Machine.

You can listen to/download all the tracks at UbuWeb.

(via Rhizome)

But did they play a C scale in unison?

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Pioneering rockabilly guitarist James Burton led an ensemble of about 800 guitar players Saturday in a celebration of his 70th birthday, but failed in his attempt to make the Guinness Book of World Records.

Guinness lists the world’s largest guitar ensemble as 1,802 participants led by Andreas Vockrodt in Germany in 2007.

Now I am curious what that many guitars sound like when they’re not playing minimalist chord progressions.

(via nytimes)

update: I guess they look like this? (Doesn’t look like 1,802 though, and are they really using those tiny practice amps? Lame!)