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🔗daniel_anthony_stearns <daniel_anthony_stearns@...>

3/21/2009 4:03:47 PM

anybody remember this cut from the old EMI Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones comp CD?
listened to it for the first time in many years by accident yesterday, and was totally off my ass times ten!!!!
imagine a barbershop Quartet from planet Z thirteeneleven joined by a chorus of McKenna' self-transforming machine elves singing the national anthem of god-only-knows-where in some super formant enriched vowel language
i've heard a lot of Reichel's Daxophone, including his whole "opera", but this cut..........good god, it should've won the nobel prize or something for twisted genius in the comedic mind-expanding category.
The pitch control over a stick of wood stuck off the end of a sawhorse is just.........baaaaah, baffling
i'm awed and triple awed and all that and then some
check it if you can find it
ps---->FWiW, in my opinion i've never heard anyone in an alt-tuning half as outlier-impressive as this specific, bowed wooden stick cut.... and the whole Hopkin's-based EMI movement, while populated with lots of stoner fluff, also showed the best side of the wild plethora of truly experimental instruments that are out there and still awaiting their birth, and imO that potential far outstrips that of any micro-tuning