I found this pretty interesting video and thought I would share it with the class. It certainly presents the music of nature that we discussed from our poets in a unique and entirely modern way. Perhaps this speaks to the fresh fruit and vegetables that we get in the grocery store, no longer are they local or seasonal. Technological music from technologically produced vegetables in a modern world. Entertaining nonetheless. Enjoy.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/19/172431202/this-music-is-bananas-really
I might be inclined to invoke Billie Holiday's famous song "Strange Fruit" here as a kind of comment, Reed, but I guess the respective contexts of lynchings in the South and J.Viewz's percussive eggplants would be a bit too divergent! ... We've had other "strange fruit," too, in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": "His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise."
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