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Major Lazer - 'Keep It Goin' Louder' Video Exclusive

The brand new video for Major Lazer's - aka Diplo and Switch - track 'Keep It Goin' Louder'

SXSW 2009 - Dinosaur Jr - Acoustic Session

The legendary Lou Barlow performs 'Imagination Blind' from Dinosaur Jr's forthcoming album 'Farm' exclusively for NME on the rooftop of the Marriott hotel at SXSW 2009.

www.youtube.com/symphony The YouTube Symphony Orchestra performs Lou Harrison - Music from Canticle No. 3 on April 15, 2009 @ Carnegie Hall. Introduced by YouTube Symphony Orchestra Creative Director and Conductor...

Avalokiteshvara - Lou Harrison (02:48)

Daniel Foley (guitar), Jeff Brown (glockenspeil), Harlan Otter(glockenspeil), and Vincent Ramirez (timpani) perform Lou Harrison's Avalokiteshvara in Daniel Foley's Junior Recital. The piece was originally composed...

Lou Harrison: LABYRINTH - 3rd movement (06:38)

Lou Harrison LABYRINTH for percussion orchestra - 3rd movement. Percussion ensemble of Basel Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Herzog (Conductor)

Lou Harrison Suite for San Gen (Kevin Kmetz on Shamisen!) (02:23)

Second movement of Lou Harrison's Suite for San Gen originally recorded on Shamisen by Akiko Nishigata. Here Kevin Kmetz plays it on Tsugaru Shamisen.

Joshua Bornfield Plays "Serenade-Round" by Lou Harrison (02:16)

EMU guitarist Joshua Bornfield plays the Round from Lou Harrisons's Serenade.

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Lou Harrison Biography

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo (formerly called K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat, informally called Pak Cokro).

Harrison is particularly noted for incorporating elements of the music of non-Western cultures into his work, with a number of pieces written for Javanese style gamelan instruments, including ensembles constructed and tuned by Harrison and his partner William Colvig. The majority of his works are written in just intonation rather than the more widespread equal temperament. Harrison is one of the most prominent composers to have worked with microtones.

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