SAM: The Collection

The salt crystals snap into sharp geometries: snowflakes, perfect circles, striated waveforms, registering the frequency of the note. Mathematicians, acoustic scientists and philosophers since the ancient days of Pythagoras have been fascinated with desmonstrating the invisible number-magic of sound.

Frank Zappa once asked, via album title, “Does humor belong in music?” The iconoclastic musician surely believed this was a rhetorical question, to be answered with an emphatic “YES!” After all, pop music and comedy have coexisted for centuries, for as long as there has been a so-called “popular music.” Zappa’s potty-mouthed provocations, Weird Al Yanko