For left-handers, it’s an unforgiving world filled with awkwardly-shaped scissors, computer mouses, notebooks and even Metro Card swipers. Today we find out how left-handed musicians work -- and thrive -- in a right-handed world. Also: Californian indie rock band Airborne Toxic Event joins us to discuss their recently-released album and to perform live.
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Airborne Toxic EventMusical Southpaws
Six of the last 12 American presidents were left-handed. With the country about to inaugurate another southpaw next week, we look at left-handedness musicians who excel in a right-handed world. We talk with Atlanta Journal-Constitution classical music critic Pierre Ruhe and University of Toledo psychologist Stephen Christman.
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Airborne Toxic Event
Indie rockers Airborne Toxic Event hail from Los Angeles and take their name from the Don DeLillo novel White Noise, echoing the literary backgrounds of frontman Mikel Jollett and guitarist Steven Chen. They’ve recently gained national recognition with “Sometime Around Midnight,” a song that they recorded themselves, distributed via MP3 ...
The Airborne Toxic Event on Soundcheck
Anna Bulbrook on electric viola and Mikel Jollett on keyboard
Slideshow: The Airborne Toxic Event at WNYC
Indie rockers the Airborne Toxic Event hail from Los Angeles and take their name from the Don DeLillo ...
Music and the Left Hand
I don’t play pool a lot; but occasionally I’ll find myself in a bar with a pool table and might attempt a game or two. A few years ago, a friend and I went to the local brewpub in Park ...