Birds Rock Out on Electric Guitars

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot produces music in surprising and unexpected ways through large-scale acoustic environments and  immersive sonic installation.  From Ear to Ear at the Peabody Essex Museum employs a flock of 70 vividly-plumed Zebra finches to play iconic Gibson Les Paul and Thunderbird bass guitars. Boursier-Mougenot tunes the electric guitars to rock and blues chords so they are musically…

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new music from the vegetable orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra in Vienna, Austria performs original music made and inspired by instruments made of vegetables. Cucumberophones, celery bongos and leek violins might seem like something out of a Max Fleischer cartoon, but they are very real. They yield original sounds and music, with an ephemeral quality because of the living – and fleeting…

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