Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: KM.ML7 Hopk / College 5b - Musik	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones is a book-and-CD package devoted to new and unheard-of musical instruments, full of magnificent photographs, informative text and great music, every page and every track overflowing with ideas and originality. (I can say these things without sounding egotistical, I hope, because it's not my work as author that I'm praising, but that of the included artists.) Thirty-seven of the world's most interesting and inventive musical instrument makers appear in the book, with music from eighteen of them included on the CD. A few examples: the opening track on the CD is Hans Reichel's Daxophone -- a more developed and elegantly crafted version of the ruler held firmly overhanging the edge of the desk, played, in this case, with a bow. Hans gets an incredible circus of sounds from this arrangement with irresistible musical results. The late Jamaican mento musician Sugarbelly Walker plays his bamboo saxophone with facility, style, passion and joy! . Susan Rawcliffe produces the strangest and most haunting of sounds on oddly shaped and acoustically complex ceramic wind instruments inspired by pre-Columbian flutes and whistles. Music and instruments from the great mid-century iconoclast Harry Partch are included, as well as the earlier Theremin, played by the leading virtuoso of its day, Clara Rockmore. The reviews of this collection have been more plentiful and more enthusiastic than I ever could have thought possible, SO … I hope you'll give it a look and a listen.