365 HOWLS #55: FROGWERK (Jamming with Karl Bartos and Some Frogs)

365 HOWLS #55: FROGWERK (Jamming with Karl Bartos and Some Frogs)6-9-2013bret harold hartThese opportunities to jump right into the spirit of John Cage and AMM don't present themselves often enough, but with the help of the radio program Sound Opinions, a Eurobeat song by Karl Bartos, and a chorus of frogs in the neighborhood, I was able to participate by adding a gut-bucket porch-jam on my Tele through a PYLE-PRO PWMA50B [Portable Waist-Band PA System with Headset Microphone & Rechargeable Batteries]. Karl Bartos was (1975-1990) an electronic percussionist in the electronic-music group Kraftwerk, which I enjoyed immensely as a college kid and helped make synthesizers interesting to me.Frogs are a nightly musical inspiration from the comfort of my porch armchair.