Blatnaya pesnya
Blatnaya pesnya is a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs based on the themes of the urban underclass and often criminal underworld.
Charlie Nothing
Charlie Nothing, was an American musician, musical instrument maker and writer. He created the dingulator, guitar sculptures made out of recycled automotive steel.
Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life. His music is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music, and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition.
Art Fein’s Poker Party
In the landscape of television, public access has always been the equivalent to the wild, wild west. It’s a field that many an artist and personality has created and prospered in. One man that fits this bill is Art Fein and his long-running Los Angeles access show, Art Fein’s Poker Party. Billed as a rock and roll talk show and running since 1984, Fein’s likable personality coupled with a history of stellar guests, including Brian Wilson, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Richard Carpenter and the Legendary Stardust Cowboy have all helped make Poker Party a cult favorite.
Acid brass
Acid brass was a musical collaboration between Turner-Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and the Williams Fairey Brass Band. The project was based on fusing the music of a traditional brass band with acid house and Detroit techno.
Lenco L70
Lenco L70 is a turntable from a Swiss manufacturer.
Doppio Borgato
Doppio Borgato is a double concert grand piano, joining a regular concert grand together with a second piano, activated by a pedal board with 37 pedals, similar to that of the organ. Designed and hand-crafted by Luigi Borgato, it was patented in 2000.
Mei Langfang
An introduction to Peking Opera would not be complete without mentioning female impersonator Mei Lanfang. Traditionally only men performed Peking Opera, including the female roles - and Mei Lanfang was the master.
Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown was a spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by claiming to produce works dictated to her by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Telharmonium
Often recognized as the world’s first electronic musical instrument, the Telharmonium was a large organ-like device that used tonewheels to creative synthetic musical notes that were then transmitted by wires to a series of loudspeakers. The Telharmonium was developed by the inventor Thaddeus Cahill in 1897, and at the time it was one of the biggest instruments ever built.