Word: instruments
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...years old again, a nervous high school student with an overbite, wearing a paper bib around my neck and lying back in a large chair. After gargling with minty liquid, I opened my mouth wide and looked up, and looming above me, holding a gleaming metallic instrument, was Keanu Reeves. That was disconcerting enough, but even odder was the realization that we were not alone but were being watched by hundreds of moviegoers at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah...
...floodwaters rose, EMS technicians told TIME they were left stranded at the downtown Hampton Inn by panicking cops who jumped into their private cars to flee the city. In the wretched Superdome, where several people died before they could get out, a young violinist took out his instrument and played a Bach adagio. "These people have nothing," he told a Los Angeles Times reporter. "I have a violin. And I should play for them...
...ROBERT MOOG, 71, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, credited with ushering in the age of electronica in the 1960s and '70s; in Asheville, North Carolina. As a boy he built gadgets with his engineer father and became intrigued with the theremin, an earlier relative of the synthesizer. His musical instrument first drew attention in 1968 with the release of Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos' electrified reworking of pieces by the Baroque composer, and was later adopted by artists ranging from the Beatles to Pink Floyd...
...Loved starts like a standard ballad until an exaggerated bass line kicks up during the first verse and gentle chaos begins. Marching Bands of Manhattan builds from a single keyboard chord into something joyful enough to counter the repetitions of "your love is gonna drown." On Crooked Teeth, each instrument plays a line that, isolated, could be the basis for its own hit. The melodies are hard to get out of your head, but the thoughts they carry are only pretend deep. Just in time for the new season of The O.C. --By Josh Tyrangiel
DIED. ROBERT MOOG, 71, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, credited with ushering in the age of electronica in the 1960s and '70s; in Asheville, N.C. As a boy, he built gadgets with his engineer father and became intrigued with the theremin, an earlier relative of the synthesizer. His eponymous instrument first drew widespread attention in 1968 with the release of Switched-On Bach, Walter Carlos' electrified reworking of pieces by the baroque composer, and was later adopted by artists such as Pink Floyd and the Beatles...