Sound – John Cage and Roland Kirk 1966
January 12th, 2007 3 comments link to (permalink) posted by david
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matthew : Jan 13, 2007 at 11:18 pm
It’s actually Roland Kirk, or by his own preference, Rhasaan Roland Kirk. But yea, John Cage sounds like total bullshit but Mr. Kirk certainly makes up for it. And in general, you’ve got a great blog here.
Mallory : Jan 14, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Wow what a great site..found by reading entire Sunday Observer in UK today which mentioned Charlie Mingus which made my eyes water….look forward to yuor finds..especially old jazz greats footage .
Faraiq : Mar 27, 2009 at 9:03 am
Wow! Thhis is the music of sound and this must be what it was when God created sound out of nothingness. Rhasaan is the epitomy of sound, the Adam of sound, the original. In modern society they have just found out about sound unleashed by the computer into the images that doctors and the scientific world are just beginning to be aware of in the exploration of the human body, whales, animals, human languages, ultrasound technology—the list is endless and the possibilities infinite.The spectrrum of sound and the mathematics of sound explain the universe..
Yeah Rhasaan Roland Kirk.
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