Music
The Great American Bum
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 17, 2025 -
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Category: Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
The Electric Violin Bow
Why spend years practicing your bowing technique, when the the automated conveyor belt-style bow can do all the work for you?Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 14, 2025 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Music, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, 1950s
“Velocity” and “Creation”
Two psychedelic journeys for your trippy relaxment.The creator's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 09, 2025 -
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Category: Music, Video, Abstract, Non-figurative, Non-representational, Psychedelic, Russia
Music for Robots by Ackerman & Coe
Rest of the album here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 06, 2025 -
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Category: Music, Robots, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #619
The Women's Laundromat Chorus.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 25, 2025 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Music, Advertising, 1970s
Furry Murray (Got a Yul Brynner Haircut)
The group's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 16, 2025 -
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Category: Hollywood, Music, 1950s, Hair and Hairstyling
Musical Typewriters
The article from 1922 describes a "musical typewriter" that's really a piano that transcribes music. But the video shows an actual typewriter that plays music.
Allentown Morning Call - Nov 5, 1922
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 05, 2025 -
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Category: Music, Technology
Vol Vistu Gaily Star
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 26, 2025 -
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Category: Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, 1930s
The Pickle Suite
See all the tracks by going to YouTube and clicking on VIEW ALL in the description tab."Poets and composers were commissioned by Robert Boudreau and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra as a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the H. J. Heinz Company. It was their way of expressing gratitude and appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II for their encouragement and support of the American Wind Symphony since its beginning in '57."
The Narrator is Samuel Hazo. Note that the composer of the third piece is jazz great Oliver Nelson.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 22, 2025 -
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Category: Anniversary, Food, Music, 1960s
Feeding Fingers: “Model Lives and Fallen Leaves”
With a hat tip to Warren Ellis.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 17, 2025 -
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Category: Music, Surrealism, Twenty-first Century
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