Picasso, "Woman with Mandolin" 1910 The symphonies of Beethoven are to me the greatest artistic creation in the history of mank...

Picasso: "Bottle, Guitar, and Pipe" Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany I've posted about my sequenced "rock" transcr...

Remember when I posted the "The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'll Love Vol.1" ? Well here's Volume 2...hope you...

From a "Beethoven Calendar" Remix time... Marc Heatley: Created as part of Sound Affairs' 2008 "Ludwig" tour - ...

“Guitar” (1914) ferrous sheet metal and wire" MoMA © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'l...

As someone with a background in electro-acoustic music, I was quite excited to hear about this project: pianist Seda Röder performs an origi...

Oliver at Timpani Beethoven was a big fan of timpani and basically set the timpani world on fire with his use of them in his symphonies. ...

Today featuring a mixed bag of multi-disciplinary approaches to Beethoven... and I mean multi-disciplinary. .. Lydia Koniordou recites ext...

Well, being that today is April Fool's Day, I feel somewhat less inhibited than normal to post some of my more outlandish Beethoven ...

For some reason I really enjoy listening to Glenn Gould talk - probably even more than listening to him play!  ...Then again I'd rather ...

African Slider Guiro - Ghana Shaker Beethoven never visited the African continent or any other truly exotic tourist destinations in his l...

Warhole'd Warhol For listeners of the "classical" repertoire, the work produced by the avant-garde composers of the post-wa...

(Clara Rockmore with Theremin) Beethoven on the theremin - that's something you don't hear very often.  Most people have probably...

Keyboards piled up at the Pearl River Piano factory (BBC) Marches are good fun, at least musically.  Beethoven hated war of course, and h...

Artist Sara Naim did a fascinating experiment with photographing milk at high speed while playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata through t...

I think for Fridays I'm going to start featuring interesting covers/arrangements of Beethoven works.  Their might be some humor involved...

(The World in 1800) Actually it's Urian's Journey Around the World. One of the interesting songs Beethoven set to music in his ...

My main reason for traveling through Vienna recently was to track down Beethoven's homes and haunts, but a nice diversion one day was a ...

Beethoven's Grosse Fugue is one of my all time favorites and I could probably spend a whole week talking about it, but since I'm cur...

I have no idea what this 1979 homage sounds like, but his 2007 remix may give you some idea...(Pierre Henry in case you don't know i...