Music is communication, not competition.
Ribs (recordings) Ribs (рёбра, translit. ryobra), also known as music on ribs (Музыка на рёбрах), jazz on bones (Джаз на костях), bones or bone music (roentgenizdat) are improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray films. Mostly made through the 1950s and 1960s, ribs were a black market method of smuggling in and distributing music…
Born about in 1638 from a family of Parisian printers and engravers specialized in popular works such as calendars, playing cards, prints and prayer books, and also known by the surname L’Armessin, Nicolas de Lamerssin…
The music from the 1967 Spider-Man animated series is jazzy and catchy. Unfortunately the music has never been released in a format that would allow us to enjoy it completely. I often wondered what it…
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A cat organ or cat piano (Katzenklavier in German) is a conjectural musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they…
This lobster-claw violin, created by John Dadmun back in 1903, will have to be included in the first performance of the Weird Universe orchestra, whenever that might be. Links: Strand (From www.weirduniverse.net)
A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed…
Alexander “Alex” Steinweiss (March 24, 1917 – July 17, 2011) was a graphic design artist known for inventing album cover art. In the 1930s recorded music was sold in plain packaging, or record shop advertising…
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Creator of the groundbreaking Acoustic Synthesis technology behind the Moog Guitar, the Moog Lap Steel, and the Vo-96, inventor Paul Vo has danced upon the bleeding edge of technology since he was old enough…
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Luigi Russolo (30 April 1885 – 6 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).He is often regarded as…