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Pocket Calculator's Vintage Boombox and Ghetto Blaster Museum This is our homage to some of the greatest and most innovative portable stereos of all time, a Ghettoblaster Hall of Fame. The models below are the hallmarks of quality and innovation in the portable stereo world. You will not find anything comparable in today’s price-conscious and disposable marketplace, they are but fading memories of another time. Live KEXP Sponsored by Through the generosity of listeners like you, audiences from around the world enjoy KEXP, a listener supported non-profit organization dedicated to enriching people's lives by championing music and discovery. Be a part of keeping great music and experiences like this possible and make a gift to Listener Powered KEXP today. Learn more about KEXP here. The Helio Sequence, May 19, 2015:

Dancing mania Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John's Dance and, historically, St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time. The mania affected men, women, and children, who danced until they collapsed from exhaustion. One of the first major outbreaks was in Aachen, Germany, in 1374, and it quickly spread throughout Europe; one particularly notable outbreak occurred in Strasbourg in 1518. Sky Orchestra Created by artist Luke Jerram Sky Orchestra is an artwork designed to deliver music to sleeping people from out of the sky. A form of provocative urban art, Sky Orchestra questions the boundaries of public artwork, private space and the ownership of the sky. The Sky Orchestra is made up of seven hot air balloons, each with speakers attached, which take off (at dawn or dusk) and fly across a city.

Hospital radio Typical hospital radio studio Hospital radio is a form of audio broadcasting produced specifically for the in-patients of hospitals. It is primarily found in the United Kingdom, hospital radio has been found to be beneficial to patients lifting their mood and aiding recovery. There are hundreds of hospital radio stations in the UK, almost all are members of the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA), which was set up by stations for their mutual benefit and does not govern or run them. Hospital radio stations are staffed and managed by volunteers. History[edit]

First notes for 639-year composition The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday. The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible. Composed by late avant-garde composer John Cage, who died in 1992, the performance has already been going for 17 months - although all that has been heard so far is the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated. The music will be played in Halberstadt, a small town renowned for its ancient organs in central Germany. It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last. They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.

A Young Person's Guide to the Avant-Garde [LTMCD 2569] Various Artists Sleevenote: Disc 1: 1. Erik Satie Vexations [detail] 3.09 Visionary French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) is today regarded as a keynote modernist composer. As well as influencing contemporaries such as Debussy and Ravel, his tendency towards simplicity and repetition continue to inform modern avant-garde genres such as minimalism and ambient. The Benefits of Cold Coffee: A Music Review “I cannot stop to comfort them/I’m busy chasing up my demon…” Concept: Kate Bush tells madly macabre stories with a whimsical bent in between enthusing over such unrelated topics as Egyptian splendour and the music of Delius. Musically, I want to dub this thing “feminine psychedelia.”