Went to see a presentation/question and answer section featuring the amazingly awesome Dame Evelyn Glennie. I...wow. That was ridiculously sweet.

Like I went because I needed something to write about in my Psych seminar and we're talking about in class, but...that was just purely awesomeness. Like, I'm no musician and I know next to nothing about percussion but the way she played and how she talked about hearing not with your ears, but body was, just, wow. Never mind the fact that she's profoundly deaf so its obvious that she would have to experience music a differently from most people, but--DUUDE I didn't know you could do that with just a snare drum. At the end, I ended up walking behind a bunch of percussion majors and they were sitting farther away from me...but apparently, at the end, she broke the "face" of the drum at the end of the piece she played. Hehe. Well, listening to their insights was pretty interesting as well.

>.< That was so cool. ~continues to babble~ And her Scottish accent was sweet!!

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The guitarist in the video, Fred Frith, is also pretty awesome too. In the film we watched, he was doing all these things I didn't know you could do with a guitar. Speaking of which, both of them were using string bows on the weirdest things. I was shocked because you get it drilled "don't touch the hair on the bow! RAWR!" the very moment you pick up a string instrument that you end up treating the bow delicately and...and...Frith was using it on wires...DUSTY WIRES and VENTS in that sugar factory shown in the video. Oh yeah, Glennie used the bow on like a bunch of different percussion instruments too. It was quite amazing.