Let's Talk About Glenn Weyant's 'MOWED MUSIC'
Seven Days receives loads of album submissions, but Glenn Weyant's MOWED MUSIC is the first to feature nothing but a lawn mower. The record consists of a single 30-minute track in which the East Montpelier sound artist's gas-powered Toro mower is the lone "instrument." With his mower "roughly tuned to B-flat," according to the album cover/liner notes, the resulting recording emphasizes "tonalities and harmonics of distance, direction and so on." Also the occasional mowed-over stick. Former music editor Dan Bolles, current music editor Jordan Adams and future music editor Chris Farnsworth h...