CyClOphOne

It’s safe to say that the vacuum cleaner hasn’t played a major part in the history of music. Captain Beefheart sold them door to door, Jon Fishman from Phish occasionally plays solos on an Electrolux, and… well, that’s about it. Dyson, however, have recently redressed this imbalance by collaborating with the Orion Orchestra and composer David Roche. The resulting piece is called Acoustical Anatomy; it features the Cyclophone (48 flue pipes from Dyson cleaners), an Amp-sichord (strings mounted in Dyson fans) and a violin made out of bits of a Dyson hand dryer. Ironically, the piece doesn’t suck.