The art of asking...

Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan.

Making music out of everything

Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects. 

The Bamboo Contingency : Auto-Pompes

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads"

Dr. Emmet Brown

A part of the Bamboo Production was enjoying a nice trip in Bruxelles.

Walking down from Place Royale to Grand Place a sound with all the features of what we mean with "Bamboo Production" caught me.  And yes... the sensation was good.

A beautiful installation, arranged by Lauren Taquin, Herve Brunet and Didier De Groef for the Zinneke Parade, allowed us to perform this video!

The Discovery of the One

"The Discovery of the One" is the follow up of "The Spider Song".

The Piano leaves the scene to the tambourine and the Cajon but you can clearly find out the same insistent (cit.) melody of the first project of the group.
Even if everything is enriched with a big step forward: the conquer of the One!

Enjoy it!

 

The Great Tits Song

Since we put a nest box in our garden, a couple of Great Tit (Parus major) chose it as own home. They don't seem be scared of us and differently from our neighbours,  they enjoy our music.

Today, we got a quite sunny afternoon and we realized this timeline with a very nice framing.

Like all the our videos from the realization up to the upload on the web pass just a couple of hours.

The music is written and performed by Bamboo Santos in the while of the making of the video.
The quote in the beginning of the video is from "Blackbird" of The Beatles.

Enjoy it!

The unbelievable story of Billy Can

Carlo Lucarelli is a famous and serious italian journalist. He did some very good TV programs, facing off with a lot of shady italian mysteries, like the "Tangentopoli" scandal and of the P2 lobby. But recently he has started a new TV program: Almost True. Already the name have to get you in alert...
In fact the show deals with the very fascinating life of numerous stars of the rock. From Elvis Presley to David Bowie,  across big bands like Led Zeppelin and Beatles. Just about the story of the Beatles we are going to talk about. It heavy impressed the Bamboo Production up to chose the main character of the history as the founding father of the group.
But in order...
Listening Lucarelli we learned about the fact that the Beatles, starting from the 1966, was composed by four people: John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Star and... Billy Can! You read well guys!  Not one of the biggest and brilliant musician of all the history but one anonymous canadian cop, William Campbell.
According to the story narrated by Lucarelli, Paul McCartney died in a car accident in the November 1966 and it was replaced by the winner of look-alike contest, which being part of the FabFours and was the writer of some of most innovative and ultimate Beatles production.
So the authors of Helter Skelter and Let it be is not the baronet McCartney but his double, which had the chance to perform this incredible  role-game into the shoes of one of the best musician of ever.

Ok, so what the hell has the Bamboo Production to do with the canadian cop becoming one of the FabFour?
Of course we don't believe that the genius author of "Yesterday" was a traffic police man.
But Billy Can is the metaphor of the Bamboo Production. A people put in the contest of free-access to do music can make some good composition even if he never did before. Ok, maybe he couldn't make a masterpiece as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,  but at least a catchy music-video like "The Spider Song".
So, Billy Can from all the world let's play and share some nice music!

That's art... but for someone even noise

Finally we got our first feedback from the fans:

Maybe, the activities of the group will be subjected to a rundown. Or we have to find new studios.

The Spider Bamboo Strips : The spider meal around the Moon

It was a monday holiday afternoon.  It was evening. We were watching a funny movie (The Hangover) when someone saw our mate TheSpider involved in a delicious mosquito-based meal. The Bamboo Production soul came out immediately... Taken camera and guitar we performed a meta-composition about the gravitational meal of our buddy!

Enjoy it!