Is the Cibber piper in the V&A a notorious plague-pit drunkard?
Featuring O du lieber Augustin, the Thomases Dekker and Middleton, Daniel Defoe and various disreputable beggars and foreigners.
Tag: music
Brenda strikes back
“Don’t waste your time on obscure contemporary composers, John,” she said.
¡A por los títeres!
La feria madrileña imita a Petruskha.
Barrel organ available for losing bettors on the Iowa caucuses
Exemplary punishments from the 1892 US presidential election.
Tweets for January 2016
Blind organ-grinder and dog drowned in the Meuse/Maas at Liège/Luik, Belgium
Floodwaters took his barrel-organ, he held onto his only source of income, Fido was on a string.
Christmas carousels
Impossible automata for my street organ this holiday season. Featuring Georg Büchner, Ignaz Bruder, German Christmas pyramids, dancing Hasidim, Lieutenant Kijé as you’ve probably never seen it, Le Tigre, and a crustacean.
Tweets for December 2015
Clips de audio del organillo de manubrio / Street organ audio clips
Virtualmente / Virtually
Beyond digesting ducks
Medium-sized data and the street organ’s mannequin.
