A morning trip to Dustbury got me off to a good start today. Well, that and hanging some Christmas lights in the kitchen windows and pouring myself a big-ass cup of coffee.Since we were speaking of drumming and rhythms (and we were, weren’t we?), I was taken by his entry about the BTO, or, Boston Typewriter Orchestra.
Humans make music. It is in my estimation the best thing we have going for us, and I am constantly amazed by the limitless ways we discover to give voice to the music in us. My only problem with the BTO is that I didn’t think of it first, and that’s a great litmus test for what ideas are really good.
If, like me, you have spent too much of your life in a cubicle number-crunching or letter-writing (especially if the names Smith-Corona, Brother and Selectric are as familiar to you as those of college or high school friends), you should pay the BTO’s site a visit and watch the interview video.
I admit that sometimes I miss typing on a typewriter. I didn’t know that all along I was making music.
Too cool!
ReplyDeleteHey, you’re back! How was your trip?
ReplyDeleteIt was awsome!! I am tired. LOL
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Ville :)
ReplyDeleteMusic is definitely the best thing we have going for us (although I might be biased, lol). I think the next best thing we’ve done was to ship a sample of some of our music into outer space on Voyager. We should rally together to get one of the space agencies (or private sector upstarts as they become capable) to send out a LOT more samples. At least we’ve gotten nearly a century of it out on radio waves.
I sometimes miss my typewriter. I remember when I got my first computer… one of the three reasons I got it was for writing. How quickly I realized it just wasn’t the same.
Welcome back, Ville :)
ReplyDeleteMusic is definitely the best thing we have going for us (although I might be biased, lol). I think the next best thing we’ve done was to ship a sample of some of our music into outer space on Voyager. We should rally together to get one of the space agencies (or private sector upstarts as they become capable) to send out a LOT more samples. At least we’ve gotten nearly a century of it out on radio waves.
I sometimes miss my typewriter. I remember when I got my first computer… one of the three reasons I got it was for writing. How quickly I realized it just wasn’t the same.
Hey, you’re back! How was your trip?
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