Showing posts with label cactus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cactus. Show all posts

11.18.2009

Amplified Cactus, Redux

Here at Sweet Gams! we like being self-referential. Not that we get mired in ouroboric meaninglessness, but it's just fun sometimes.

So, in light of all that, let us revisit the Amplified Cactus. This time, lion of the avant-garde John Cage can be found tinkering on the prickly thermophilic flora with some feathers:



For the curious, this is an excerpt from Nam June Paik's work called "Good Morning, Mr. Orwell."

5.28.2008

Amplified Cactus

Yep, amplified cactus! Greg Jenkins uses contact microphones attached to cacti and makes sounds by plucking the spines. Pretty fun.

Watch the video from Australia Adlib.