Three True Tales About Music and Technology by Robert Barry

Author:Robert Barry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912722556
Publisher: Rough Trade Books

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Eventually though, the promised demonstrations came.

He invited people to come to his laboratory—industrialists, politicians, and gentlemen of the press—to show what he could do. With his marvellous machines, before their very eyes, he would set a glass bowl spinning, lift heavy weights, fire shot from a gun with a puff of smoke.

Each time the source of his power remained obscure. Only one thing his spectacular displays had in common. Before the bowl spun, the weight rose, the gun fired, Keely himself would put a bow to his violin or strike a set of tuning forks and leave them vibrate, or blow through the chambers of his harmonica.

These certain combinations of musical tones were Keely’s chords of power—ether chords and chords of mass, sympathetic chords and chords of disintegration.

With music he sought to set the world in motion.

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