Yuri Suzuki's JellyFish Theremin and other deightful inventions

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The JellyFish Theremin:"The movement of Jellyfish controls the sound, air- conditioning, the visual image and lighting.
Water is the element that possesses the most relaxing characteristics for human beings.
Jellyfish are the closest living thing to water that can be found on Earth. ..."



White Noise Machine:"This machine can calculate the quantity of street noise, and then generate the same amount of white noise.
The ambient noise can be drowned by white noise."

Yuri Suzuki
(via Sound Scavangers)

Zappa and musical friends

Frank Zappa jammin' with The Chieftains, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and the Tuvan group Huun-Huur-Tu.

Clip uploaded by ummagummadave.

Pink Terror.

[via the Catalog of Visual Interestingness.]

Jim Henson - Time piece (1964)

"Time Piece is an experimental short film produced, directed, and written by Jim Henson, who also played the leading role. Henson began the project in the spring of 1964 and continued to work on it for nearly a year, between commercial projects and various Muppet television appearances. The short film premiered in May 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art and was distributed through Pathe Contemporary films to arthouse theaters and the film festival circuit. It played in New York City along with the French feature A Man and a Woman", originally posted by Billiam J

Thanks to Thiaz Itch and Tracky Birthday for showing this to me.

Giving Up with Stock, Hausen, & Walkman

Experimental music CAN be fun, so says bravo juju.

Seducing Down the Panel

John Cale on I've Got a Secret



Via Classic Television Showbiz and WFMU

Dig that thick (not so thick now, I think) Welsh accent! Cale played Satie at a concert that lasted for 18 hours and his co-contestant sat through it all. Or, he Sat-ie through it all. (Yes, I DO acknowledge that I am a comedic genius, now dry your eyes)

Go Bess Myerson, GO! Buster of secrets!

Harry Smith : Anthology Of American Folk Music

Harry Smith " was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his skills as an anthropologist, linguist, and translator. He had a lifelong interest in the occult and esoteric fields of knowledge, leading him to speak of his art in alchemical and cosmological terms." (via www.harrysmitharchives.com )

Harry Smith's folk 78rpm collection : Anthology Of American folk Music (originally released on Folkways in 1952) with 84 songs from various artists recorded between 1927 and 1932. A must have ! If you don't own a copy you fool, go grab it on DoYouSpeakEnglish?

Harry Smith's experimental movies Early Abstractions made available on YouTube by JuanAuxEnfers

Ed Seeman "high contrast ecstasy" (1969)

A psychedelic vision of female ecstasy, with a music soundtrack by Edgar Varese and a vocal composition by Luciano Berio
Uploaded by Ed Seeman himself !

"Name: ED, Age: 66, MARRIED AND LIVING IN CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA. NO LONGER ANIMATING OR FILMMAKIING. NOW SHOWING ON YOUTUBE THE RESULTS OF A LIFETIME OF ANIMATING AND FILMMAKING, FROM TWO YEARS WITH FRANK ZAPPA (UNCLE MEAT) TO EXPERIMENTAL DANCE FILMS.CURRENTLY CREATING DIGITAL FINE ART AND SELLING CARTOON T-SHIRTS ON EBAY AND WHOLESALING TO A WIDE VARIETY OF TOURIST ATTRACTIONS AND GIFT SHOPS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. I'M NOW CREATING DVD'S OF ALL MY FILMS FOR FUTURE SALES."

As you can read it on his YouTube profile here
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Check his ... euh ... let's say ... "amazing" recent digital creations ?!
www.edseeman.com
Buy his early experimental movies on DVDs here

Albert Ayler's First Recordings

Available this week At Houseplant Picture Studio:
Albert Ayler - First Recordings [a little more info here].

Musique Pour Le Futur

Nino Nardini - Musique Pour Le Futur, from 1970. Available now at Heino & Jerry im Über Space.

8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

Directed by Jean Cocteau and Hans Richter in 1957 [IMDb].
Starring Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and several others. (70 min) (via Videos with Bibi)

Updated: phantomoftheradio alerts us about another Hans Richter masterpiece from 1928 "Ghost before breakfast". Thanks!

Photo Central: Photo Exhibits

'Woman in Striped Dress'
Found in Joel D. Levinson: An Independent Vision of the Human Condition.

Photo Central: Photo Exhibits - Selection of photo exhibits on a selected topic or photographer.
Also of interest: Surrealism and Experimental Photography, Fritz Henle: Observer and Photographer of People and Places and Paris at Night in Photographs. I advice you to have a tour. lot's of great photography. (via Peanut Butter Sandwich)