Someone used my image!
I just did a Google search on my name and discovered that one of my Flickr images got used in a video presentation accompanying a perfomance of “Music in Similar Motion,” a Phillip Glass composition. I was rather surprised to find this out, as no one had informed me that this was going to take place. Oh well.
Electronica from the Congo
I was reading Music Thing today when I stumbled across a great article on a Congolese group called Konono N°1. For the past 25 years, these musical innovators have been using low-tech ingenuity on traditional and found instruments to create a irresistable grooves. Using hand-carved wooden microphones and electrified likembé (thumb piano) plugged into amplifiers and custom-built mixers, Konono N°1 finds it’s roots in Bazombo trance music. The resulting sonic mélange has inadvertently linked them to experimental music and electronic music.
I’m really excited to pick up their CD, ‘Congotronics’, from Amazon.
via Music thing
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via The Suburbs Are Killing Us
Check out this Konono N°1 page in French, featuring a great video clip of them in action.
I tried to find out more about the Bazombo and their music, and the only reference I could find is on zyama.com, an African art museum.
Asymmetrical Legos
One of my greatest Lego creations ever…
I was playing with my housemate Kristin’s son Yoshua, and I came up with this bizarre lego thing.
