American composer and all-round supporter of experimental music Charles Amirkhanian has turned 80. I wasn’t able to attend the celbrations in San Francisco but did discover that they have unearthed the recording that I conducted and produced of his piece Ratchet Attach It. This is a joyfully eccentric combination of player piano with up to 13 percussionsists. I’m currently remixing it in time for an autumn 25 release but you can hear snippets in the video on this page. It starts around 1’05”.