The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is a collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire.

BTO aims to entertain the masses while providing a creative outlet for the creative urges of its members.

 

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It’s WTF Friday, and you know what that means – we’ve got the most unusual music news of the week for you.
This week, we take a look at the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
This year, SI has shifted its emphasis off of babes in swimsuits in glamorous places, and instead is focusing on the world [...]

A new community-driven music discovery service, Goombah, launched today.
Goombah is a free desktop application for Mac or Windows that provides music recommendations based on each user’s taste and the power of community. Goombah analyzes each user’s iTunes collection and listening behavior and connects them to people and music that match their taste. Users can sample [...]

Qloud (pronounced “cloud”) today launched a public beta of its search service and iTunes plug-in.
Qloud uses media player plug-ins to provide the listener data that powers Qloud’s search. In the Qloud service, users can then search through this information, and can do so in multiple ways:

music preference (how much it is played, how highly it [...]

Says-It.com has a stupid but fun cassette tape image generator.
Does the world need a cassette tape generator? No, you know you’re going to try it anyway…..

The Wild Boys of 80’s chart-toppers Duran Duran are getting a second life as headliners as virtual characters within the online game Second Life.
Second Life is an online 3D digital world, which is imagined, created and owned by the residents. More than 370,000 people have Second Life avatars.
Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes said of [...]

The Stage, a UK trade publication for the entertainment world has partnered with The Podcast Network to bring the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Festival, one of the world’s largest music and arts festivals, to podcast listeners around the world.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival features 28,014 performances of 1,867 shows in 261 venues, and features an estimated 16,990 [...]

Next rainy day, you may want to take a trip to the Museum of Techno.
It’s collection include the James Joame Collection of Badboy Kickdrums. Also of interest is the organizations research into restoring pumping, floor-shattering techno drum and bass to archival recordings from the early 20th century, using partial kelly equations.