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Musique Explosive

Dan Damon Dan Damon | 12:55 UK time, Tuesday, 25 July 2006

We've been talking to a Beirut artist and musician calld Mazen Kerbaj.

He is orchestrating the sound of the bombing to make musique concrete.

He also has a .

Comments

  • 1.
  • At 01:53 PM on 25 Jul 2006,
  • Candadai Tirumalai wrote:

The arts have provided fertile ground for experiment. In one of his sonnets, the French poet Rimbaud associated specific colours with vowels: A with black, E white, I red....In Beirut,incorporating the sound of bombs into music may be a way of coping with a very difficult situation. Other musicians have incorporated the sound of industrial machinery in their symphonies.

  • 2.
  • At 02:20 PM on 25 Jul 2006,
  • wrote:

Great Blog.

  • 3.
  • At 06:42 PM on 25 Jul 2006,
  • Bill Cadogan wrote:

Thank you for your tough questions for the spokesman for the so-called IDF yesterday. We can only hope that these people will start listening to each other instead of spouting the same self-justifying drivel ad nauseam.

Keep up the good work--you are the last trustworth guys left!

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