BLOODY WELL WRITE
Missives, musings and tweets from Planet Prog.
I was fascinated by Rhodri Marsden’s piece in Fad Gadgets [Prog 88] about the cyclophone, an instrument incorporating 48 flue pipes from Dyson vacuum cleaners and featured in a composition by David Roche.
A musician colleague said that Dyson seemed to be the perfect machine for such compositions, which is a good point as it’s both efficient and contemporary. However, though Dyson may be the current go-to for works featuring vacuum cleaners, Malcolm Arnold’s A Grand Grand Overture (written for a Hoffnung Festival and incorporating three vacuum cleaners and a floor polisher) was created before Dyson came along. So I guess we have post-Dyson and pre-Dyson in compositional development in both the classic and progressive electric wind area…
Brian Thomas