Lung disease sufferers may want to talk to their doctors about music making. Harmonicas are helping patients with lung conditions in hospitals.
Tag: nontraditional music
Disabled Boy Plays Piano with Virtual Reality Headset
Japanese VR headset manufactuer Fove and the University of Tsukuba have developed the Eye Play the Piano virtual reality headset to help disabled children
The Saw Lady
Video of Natalia Paruz: The Saw Lady. She has many stories about the people she has met while playing the saw in the NYC subway. She has played more prestigious gigs…
Natalia Paruz: The Saw Lady
Natalia Paruz: The Saw Lady has many stories about the people she has met while playing the saw in the NYC subway. She has played more prestigious gigs…
Car Park Provides Orchestra Venue
Car Park provides orchestra venue where classical music is heard from seven stories up in a parking garage in Southeast London. It’s the Multi-Story Orchestra founded by Kate Whitley and Christopher Stark.
Crowd Sourced Chorus
Inspired by a crowd of 38,000 singing at a British football match 20 years ago, New York composer David Lang wrote a piece called “Crowd Out,” designed to be performed by 1,000 amateur musicians.
Virtual Band
Dean Brantley Taylor is a songwriter and producer. He also has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which makes it hard for him to leave his apartment, much less sing or play an instrument. It’s even hard to simply listen to music, he says. “But, I’m in a band. Hallelujah!” he exclaims with a resounding euphoria you wouldn’t expect from someone afflicted with such a condition.
House Concerts
House concerts are musical performances generally held in private homes and hosted by fans, friends, or relatives of the performing musician(s). Audiences are usually 25 to 35 people, but can sometimes be as large as 60 or more, and a donation of $15 to $25 is generally requested, but not required. Oftentimes, there is a potluck dinner involved, but wine and cheese events are most common, with guests encouraged to bring a drink to share. Hosts will even sometimes put performers up for a night.
Sneaky Instruments
Google and Converse challenged the UK company Technology Will Save Us, which specializes in supplying DIY kits, to modify a pair of Converse sneakers with its DIY Speakers Kit. Technology Will Save Us rose to the challenge creating what may be the world’s first guitar shoe, using the laces for strings, then creating a microphone, contrabass, and feedback synth, and using the kit’s box to create an amp. They then brought the challenge to a set of London workshops where participants created everything from a sneaker that “walked” when bass-heavy music played to a sneaker ukulele.
Game Review of BANDFUSE: Rock Legends
Whether you play guitar daily or have never touched one in your life, Bandfuse is a game that you need to try. Bandfuse allows you to take a real guitar and plug it in and play through your console. The game is set up to please and challenge both novice and advanced players.