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Josiah Collett, a 10-year-old autistic boy from Broxbourne, England, had always struggled to interact with society. But things were getting worse: At school, his peers were telling him he shouldn’t be alive. He would spend nights crying, unable to explain to his parents what had happened.”He lived in his own world,” his mother, Georgia, told me. “We couldn’t get him to understand us, and he couldn’t get us to understand us.”During a family trip to Belgium, the Collettes heard a “gorgeous, hypnotic sound” in the distance. As they walked down the street, they spotted a busker playing something that sounded…
Last weekend’s Philadelphia Folk Festival just wasn’t the same without Dante Bucci.Dante, who passed away last Wednesday, brought his own unique style of music-making to the festival since 2001. His instrument was a “hang”, a type of drum shaped like a flying saucer, held on the lap and played with the hands and fingers.The music Dante produced with this strange device, much of which he composed himself, was completely different to anything heard on traditional instruments; the sounds are usually described as “dreamy” and “haunting.”At festivals, he often performed with other musicians or on his own, and he could also…
Photo: John Vettese No one can make the drums sing like Dante Bucci. The songwriter, percussionist, creative collaborator and Philadelphia music fixture was found dead in his Roxboro home on Wednesday. He was 34 years old.A systems analyst at Drexel University by day, Butch has gained local and regional recognition as a master of the hang drum, a unique UFO-shaped instrument that sounds and feels similar to a steel drum. The percussive yet melodic instrument has allowed Butch to write and perform songs virtually as a one-man band, with two drums balanced on his lap. His latest album, Kinesthesia, was…
This hanging has attracted the interest of scientists, making it a puzzling PANArt.ch. There’s something mystical about the Hang. The Swiss-made instrument has become a kind of Holy Grail for tens of thousands of people around the world. In this rare interview, its equally enigmatic makers talk about their unexpected success. This content was published on May 9, 2014 at 16:30 “Hanging is a virus.” Felix Rohner often likens his and Sabina Scherer’s creation to something infectious. Indeed, he can’t seem to keep his hands off it. As he chats, he frequently reaches for an oddly shaped iron instrument beside…