worked a jake shimabukuro show tonight: pretty good way to get paid. (he has a lil kid now! i'm old.) he did an uncommonly beautiful version of bohemian rhapsody, cut right to its knotty heart.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:00 (nine years ago) link
may have been the wrong thread. it was this, "unfancied instruments", or the one about virtuosos who are not wanky.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:01 (nine years ago) link
A friend of mine invented the Fluid Piano, a piano which enables the pianist to tune individual notes on the fly and thereby play microtones that are found in non-western music but cannot normally be played on the piano:
http://www.thefluidpiano.com
― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:22 (nine years ago) link
I've always been amazed by Steve Albini's drum machine programming assuming that's him who did the Big Black stuff. Certainly sounded to me as as good as a lot of actual drummers at the time.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 August 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
That fluid piano looks great. I imagine it's horribly expensive, though.
― emil.y, Sunday, 31 August 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah they run to about £10K.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Sunday, 31 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link