The xylophone is the first version of musical instrument we do.
I can't sing on key, I can't play an instrument, we don't sell a ton of records, we'll never be a big band, but one thing: You might not like me, but you see it live, that (guy) means it, and it's full-on.
I couldn't learn a musical instrument, we didn't have good shoes or a normal football.
Members of the English Concert orchestra like to talk as much about "speaking" with our instruments as we do about "singing": not just the meaning but also the sound and taste of the words are incorporated into the mix.
We mostly don't play real instruments, and we don't even sound that good live.
A: We're definitely going to use some crazy instruments, but we don't know what they're called.
Harris and I both grew up doing classical strings, so we kind of treat the voices like instruments where we don't really do vocal things with them.
None of the original instruments survived but we do have photos of Russolo in his studio, surrounded by Intonarumori, as well as a diagram from the patent he filed.
They know how to manipulate music, they know that a voice can be an instrument, like we do.
