7x7th Street
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Seven of the world’s greatest musicians, Robert Wyatt, Nile Rodgers, Terry Riley, Kassin, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan and Mulatu Astatke, have created original compositions performed through interactive sound sculptures, which create the unique installation that is 7x7, presented as 7x7th Street at Summerhall. All ages.
Jean Pierre Muller.
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7x7th Street
4 Aug 2012
Interactive sounds sculptures create a musical promised land
Seven and seven is, well, a very magic number indeed in Jean Pierre Muller's walk-through collaboration with musical icons including Robert Wyatt, Nile Rodgers, Archie Shepp and Terry Riley. Free-associating ideas based around the number seven (days a…
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