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Old 01-08-2010, 09:59 AM   #11 (permalink)
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i remember seeing a bjork performance in which one of the instruments was a guy shifting sand/small rocks with his feet.
The two guys backing Bjork up in that performance are Matmos, a band that's used a lot of really weird stuff throughout their career to make music. Probably the strangest was using to movements of snails in a glass container to block lasers thereby triggering sounds.
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:55 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I was gonna say the Jew's harp was rather uncommon, but hey, i've got nothing now...
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Old 01-11-2010, 07:31 AM   #13 (permalink)
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The two guys backing Bjork up in that performance are Matmos, a band that's used a lot of really weird stuff throughout their career to make music. Probably the strangest was using to movements of snails in a glass container to block lasers thereby triggering sounds.
Man that is about as random as you could possibly get hahahaha
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Old 01-11-2010, 10:33 AM   #14 (permalink)
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The two guys backing Bjork up in that performance are Matmos, a band that's used a lot of really weird stuff throughout their career to make music. Probably the strangest was using to movements of snails in a glass container to block lasers thereby triggering sounds.
nice

i want to use it. snails, what a cool instrument
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Old 01-21-2010, 05:28 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Michael Tyack - Vocals, Guitars, Cittern
Holly-Jane Shears - Vocals
Tom Goldsmith - Bass
Will Summers - Flutes, Recorders, Crumhorns, Shawm
Antony Elvin - Vocals, Percussion
Cathy Harabaras -Drums

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Old 01-21-2010, 05:42 AM   #16 (permalink)
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^Bloody hell, that was embarassing!
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Old 01-21-2010, 08:47 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Old 01-22-2010, 01:03 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I can't remember the name of the band to save the live of me, but the most unusual instrument I've ever seen used in a band (out side of a symphonic band) is bassoon.
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Old 01-27-2010, 03:47 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Well, it's not a band, some 50 years old music but I think it's unusual a lot
Orchestra and typewriter

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