Site of the week: Today’s Web-surfing recommendation is a combination of the best and worst habits of this thing we call the Internet. Explore our topic, and you’ll come across a couple of great websites and some amazing video. Dedicated e-mailers have been sending around for a few weeks now a note from a guy claiming to salute the “amazing music machine” constructed by students and teachers at the University of Iowa. The accompanying note lauds the elegantly goofy machine for being constructed almost entirely of John Deere tractor parts. Turns out the machine is one of the creations by a team at “Animusic,” which uses computer generated graphics to combine images and sound in short clips. You can view clips for free and pay for the company’s DVDs at animusic.com; read about the bogus e-mail and the explanation as part of the Urban Legends project at about.com, at the address urbanlegends.about.com/li brary/bl_amazing_music_ma chine.htm.
-Michael Booth
PODCAST! | Transistor Radio Sound
It’s easy to fall for the low-fi simplicity of Transistor Radio Sound. The music is straight from the gut, and the man who makes it all happen, Nick Houde, talks with The Post’s Ricardo Baca in this week’s Local Scene podcast about kazoo orchestras and entire bands made up of tiny instruments.
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