Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra Does what it says on the tin: polyrhythmic percussion music with no other instruments, almost no singing, music tracks interspersed with intentionally banal office chatter (“How was your weekend?”) for “Office Space”-like satirical effect. They even redact the Surfari’s “Wipe Out” into “Whiteout.” Funny, but with compelling rhythms. Non-musical objects turned [...]
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
BOSTON TYPEWRITER ORCHESTRA ….LIVE …. I have a unique collection as well of some of the earliest experimental industrial music from the late 1970′s/early 1980′s …and when I first heard these guy’s a couple year’s ago …it reminded me of some of the great old school industrial in a way. So I figured to look [...]
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Opening Nite Boston CyberArts just posted a nifty video featuring opening nite performances from Radio Wonderland, Die Schrauber, the Lothars, and the Boston Typewriter Orchestra (Peace, Loving aren’t on the vid, but check them out too–they’re sexy.) Plus, there’s a quick interview with MegaFest co-director Nick vdK, who is desperately clutching to his smokes in [...]
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Acoustic ecstasy at Boston’s Megapolis by Michael Lithgow on April 25, 2009 The basement of the Elks Lodge was steamy hot. Two hundred or so jammed into the dark, low-ceilinged room (complete with elk heads on the wall) to celebrate opening night of the Megapolis Audio Festival in Boston. It was an all-star line-up: The [...]
In an article about Brendan Emmett Quigley: April 1, 2009, 10:00 pm I’ll Take the Crossword Puzzle for $200 By JIM HORNE BTO MENTION: “When I’m not puzzling, I try to do a lot of travel (I’m in Denver now where my wife and I are having a quick holiday). I also play a Remington [...]
Boston Typewriter Orchestra clicks into a groove 2:35 AM Sun, Oct 12, 2008 NPR has the story: Boston Orchestra Makes Typewriters Sing Dressed in starchy white shirts and cheap polyester ties, the group creates a 1950s-style atmosphere, casually chatting about their weekends as if they are really in an office. Then, all of a sudden, [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Imagination + Old Typewriters = Music! [photograph] This could be the relic of a typewriter I learned to type on one summer at home. Nobody else cared about it, so I took it to my room, borrowed a friend’s typing manual and pounded out patterns of letters – it took some physical work — on [...]
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
You’ve Gotta Type For Your Right to Paaaaartaaay By meghan Pack Rat Magazine is too legit, too legit to quit. Hello my darlings. I have missed you. I try not to hamper you all with my personal life very much because really, this blog is about cool finds not a whole lot of navel gazing, [...]
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To: Typists From: Management Re: important marketing information The typing pool’s recent performance was documented in the Gloucester Daily Times, October 5th, 2007. Please note that this image was given 10x the space given to Jimmy Buffet’s head (pictured on the same page). Congratulations to Kaplan Jones, head of the consulting department.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is a collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire. BTO aims to entertain the masses while providing a creative outlet for the creative urges of its members. http://www.axehole.com/2007/03/14/the-boston-typewriter-orchestra/
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