Australian Art Quartet receive electric shocks to distort live classical music performance

By Lenny Ann Low, the Sydney Morning Herald
Musicians Dan Russell and James Beck from The Australian Art Quartet.

Dan Russell, violinist and member of the Australian Art Quartet, is having electrodes taped to his arms and shoulders. He is readying to receive electric shocks while playing Pachebel’s Canon in D.

“I’ve touched an electric fence before,” he says, wheeling his bow through the Baroque piece’s early notes…

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