Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra. Space Is The Place. Streeterville Studios. Blue Thumb Records. 1972.
Stevie Wonder, The Cumberland Hotel, London, 1966.
Moondog
Born Louis Thomas Hardin (1916-1999), Moondog was an ultra-talented, unconventional, homeless, blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of musical instruments with names such as oo theooo-ya-tsu the hüs and the trimba. Once in New York he deliberately decided to make his home on the streets, and lived that way for 20 years, and could be daily seen at his chosen part of 6th Avenue dressed as a Viking. Regarding this he said, "I don’t dress as I do to attract attention; I attract attention because I dress as I do".
Charles-Nicolas Cochin (engraving), the premiere of Jean-Philippe Rameaus 'La princesse de Navarre' in the Grande Écurie, 1745.
Éliane Radigue (Comfortablism), with the ARP 2500 [Modular synthesizer]; Nd.
"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language." -Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sioux writer, violinist, composer, teacher, and activist Zitkala-Ša.
Stevie Wonder in the studio. (1968)