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Arts Etc: Music: Poodle rock Hellacopters By the Grace of God mercury
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More and more artists are discovering that unreconstructed 1970s
metal is a fertile ground for inspiration. The same can't be said,
however, for unreconstructed 1980s poodle rock. Sweden's
Hellacopters, with their formica-clean production and wailing guitar
heroics, have stepped straight ...
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The bull-roarers. (poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly
; ...branches. For the first time they face an absolute darkness made terrifying by the approach of divinity announced by the bull-roarers. They come for me when it gets dark. Large and silent, wearing mummers' masks, badger claws chinging at their...
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Make it & Play it
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...lined up. From the outside one might say that I had the bull by the proverbial horns. I felt like I was dangling under...We will make our own clay instruments like ocarinas, bull-roarers, rattles, xylophones and Udu drums from Nigeria. We...
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When we were very young
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...War. Children's toys today include many low-tech items that are common around the world. Rattles, whistles, bull-roarers (a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong and whirled around the head), balls, tops, and buzzes are fun to play...
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ENCHANTED EVENING AT SYMPHONY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...something specifically primordial about the piece -- one of the many wonderful participatory sounds is the whirr of bull-roarers, instruments that date back to the paleolithic age. There's also the anklung, an Indonesian rattle that sounds...
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The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...acoustic representations. The myth, however, can become an imaginary object itself, like the drums, flutes and bull-roarers that are always detaching themselves from their owners and wandering about in the mythic narratives; myths themselves...
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John Cage knew how to listen to the world
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...so he had four low marimba notes constructed -- they sounded like the bells from a submerged cathedral; he wanted bull-roarers because they are prehistoric instruments. "I guess I chose some of the sounds," the composer admitted sheepishly...
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INTERVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...hyperactive children's chorus enacting its precociously knowing ceremonies of innocence to the accompaniment of popguns, bull-roarers and giant humming-tops - it is, in essence, "totally static, a giant decoration of the chord of E flat". It...
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Classical: English Bach Festival Royal Opera House London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...brass, and cataclysmic outbreaks of massed percussion - wind and brass players even take up triangles, whistles and bull-roarers as the chorus of Furies snap at Orestes with wooden clappers on stage. At the very end, we all got to join in, as...
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 "Sun, The: Glen Ellyn (IL)")
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Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Glen Ellyn (IL)
; ...red-work embroidery and tatting; toys, games and crafts from the era, including graces, stilts, buzz saws and bull roarers; log cutting using a two-man saw; rope making; writing with a quill pen; horse shoeing; an area resident presenting...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Teardrop car shape can slice air drag
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...from anywhere in the world -- panpipes, music boxes, maracas, carillons, conch shells, guiros, jaw harps, even bull-roarers, washboards and toy spinning tops. Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at strangetrue@compuserve...
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