What incredible photographs, filled with so many stories. Thank you for this.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 7:50 PM on May 26, 2008

A much missed artist, the Today interview is great and his eloquence, intelligence and common sense that shines through was an absolute asset in the fight against music censorship. It's sad to see him in later interviews obviously weakened by cancer but he remained lucid to the end.

Nice post.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 2:23 PM on May 17, 2008

Oops, I re-linked to the same as the OP. Here's the intended link to an interview on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in which Zappa and Carson discuss the anti-censorship testimony before a US Senate committee.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 2:28 PM on May 17, 2008

A lovely instrument. Also check out the Array Mbira featuring loads and loads and loads of keys!
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 7:31 AM on April 19, 2008

More on the Tenuri-On at Music Thing......

I look forward to the day when instruments like this turn some concerts into Discovery-era Daft Punk videos.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 5:11 AM on April 11, 2008

I'm now always a fan of their writings, but I have enjoyed some of their new music recommendations. Was nice to watch the Pixies documentary, though.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 8:20 AM on April 7, 2008

This website has left me in the realm between tears of joy and laughter and tears of the pain caused by the way it just.....looks.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 3:44 PM on April 4, 2008

Very clever. Nice how he donates money to the animals in the process as well.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 2:05 PM on March 19, 2008

Reminds me of an extrreeme Jeremy Kyle, he's our nearest equivalent in the UK.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 1:22 PM on March 19, 2008

Gorgeous game, love the graphics and sound. This strikes me as something that would be great for the Nintendo DS as a kind of surreal, imaginative brain training game for kids (and adults!), using the stylus to interact with the world.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 6:02 AM on March 17, 2008

Seconding retronic, I've been interested in this sort of thing since I read of some of the deliberate use of mathematics apparently inherent in Boards of Canada's music as well as some of the ratios between notes I've learnt about in music lectures. Will give this a good read tonight!
posted to MetaFilter by TheWaves at 1:39 PM on March 16, 2008