Pollex Christi 1976 album, "Third Reich and Roll", did with 1960s top-40 music. Two editions were released of 400 copies each, the first issue being hand numbered. Pollex Christi Pollex Christi ("The Thumb of Christ") was the first of Ralph America's limited edition CDs by the Residents. It is thought to be a solo studio project by the band's keyboardist and main composer Hardy Fox. The 20-minute synthesizer piece is made up entirely of quoted material, mostly works by famous German composers, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Orff's Carmina Burana, with a few American television show tunes added in. The piece was
The Hand of the Violinist Violinist" has been said to bring the viewer "inside the reverberations of the instrument itself", and has earned comparison with Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending A Staircase". From February to August 2014, the painting was part of the exhibit "Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe", at the Guggenheim in New York. The Hand of the Violinist The Hand of the Violinist (The Rhythms of the Bow) is a 1912 painting by Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla, depicting a musician's hand and the neck of a violin "made to look like it's vibrating through space"—blurred and duplicated to suggest the motion of frenetic