Archive for November, 2008

Vegetable Instruments, Baltimore, and the AVAM »

Well I’m back in Santa Fe and I must say that the vegetable instrument workshop was a huge success! The American Visionary Art Museum gathered a bunch of us music folks together for an amazing day of junk instrument building, noise parties, instrument petting zoos, vegetable instruments, and discussions about music and the brain. [...]

Toccata et Fugue in D Minor on a Bottle Organ »


My Review of the Tenori-On »

The Tenori-on is a refreshingly innovative tool of musical personality. The Tenori-on, with its double-sided white LED grid and its sleek aluminum frame, is a stylish way of creating and presenting music. Media artist Toshio Iwai designed the instrument originally as a work of art which Yamaha is now manufacturing and selling as [...]