Ken Butlers "Voices of Anxious Objects" 2004
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Uploaded by zookmann on Mar 15, 2009
Live and studio excerpts. The artist/musician performs mesmerizing world trance textures and driving gypsy grooves on an amazing arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household objects and tools. Duchampian Dada meets Hybrid Hindu Hendrix. Function and form collide as audio-visual antics and explorations create a provoking cultural portrait of man/machine adaptation and transformation. A performance may also include interactive hybrid audio-visual keyboards powered by motorized strummers which control lights, slide animation, motion, and video projections.
Press Quotes:
One of musics most ingenious and eccentric personalities. — John Zorn, Tzadik records, 10/97
. . . a crazy instrument builder who can get virtuoso riffs from anything. — Kyle Gann, The Village Voice, 12/29/92
Ken Butlers work is enormously interesting, particularly his idea of recycling and giving voice to found objects. — Laurence Libin, curator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum, The New York Times, 6/12/94
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Great ! i like the ideas and the sounds
OhmerWolfgang 1 month ago
String theory on acid
jakazza 1 year ago
blast from my past, i used to catch this stuff way back in M2, MTV's music only channel. Jancee Dunn, I miss you.
MattLeGroulx 2 years ago
sorry I mean John Cage
nigerfeles 2 years ago
extremely crazy, but i like it, I remember Erick Satie
nigerfeles 2 years ago