Antonio Vivaldi’s Spring performed on a special musical wine glass by running a person’s finger along the top of the glass.
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“The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi was performed on a special musical wine glass by running a person’s finger along the top of the glass and putting together footage of all the different notes into one video. The Major Scale Musical Wine Glasses (set of 2) that were used in the video are available to purchase at Uncommon Goods.
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Aside from its notoriety from The Benny Hill Show, “Mahna Mahna” became familiar to many from its renditions by the Muppets on television. In 1969, the first season of Sesame Street featured a sketch featuring two Muppet girls voiced by Frank Oz and Loretta Long who are unsure of what to do, until they decide to sing a song, enter an unusual-looking short, shaggy-haired male Muppet character who begins singing “Mahna Mahna”, prompting the girls to join him. None of the characters had names at the time, but the male Muppet who led the “Mahna Mahna” call-and-response was eventually given the name Bip Bippadotta, so as to differentiate him from the official Mahna Mahna character that would be developed later on. The Muppet character called Mahna Mahna was originally performed by Muppets creator Jim Henson, and is now currently performed by Muppeteer veteran Bill Barretta.
Entertainment for geeks.
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We are submerged in a dry swimming pool. A SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore 64, floppy disk drives and hard drives sing in unison. The unusual ensemble (controlled live via MIDI) are given a last curtain call in a nostalgic farewell to forgotten friends.
Video by James Houston
“I asked Julian Corrie to compose and perform a piece of bespoke music for antiquated hardware that I had turned into instruments then rigged together via MIDI.”