The Johnny Cash Project: an evolving video consisting of hand-drawn frames for the song “Ain’t No Grave.” Overview video above; see the whole project (and participate yourself!) here.
The Johnny Cash Project: an evolving video consisting of hand-drawn frames for the song “Ain’t No Grave.” Overview video above; see the whole project (and participate yourself!) here.
“Musical representation of the internet Wi-Fi landscape of London. It’s made by Jung-Hua Liu who converted Wi-Fi identifier codes to colour representations and from that to musical representation based on a “spatial and algorithmic” method.”
(Source: youtube.com)
A (good!) remix of Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android”, made from 36 YouTube videos.
(Source: Wired)
A hacked Kinect and custom software were used to make this visually-striking video for Echo Park’s track, “Young Silence.” Read more about it here.
Kind of love the Kermit the Frog <=> James Murphy mapping. See also.
Alexis Madrigal and the gang at The Atlantic Technology attempt to get 12 smartphones to play the Flaming Lips’ “Two Blobs Fucking.” It looks ridiculously hard.
If you want to try it yourself, The Flaming Lips have posted an instructional video here.
“How to Solve a Song”, a fantastic TEDxSeattle talk about music and math by Karen Cheng
(via Scott Berkun)
[1:23] “Now, deep within our music labs we are testing just how many times a song needs to be played before the average person goes out and buys it…”
(Source: teaandbump-its, via hypem)
Blue Peter: “Don’t Walk on Past” (1983)
As far as I can recall, this is the first music video I ever saw. And I didn’t see it on television: I saw it in a contemporary art gallery, on a class trip.
But memory is famously unreliable, so I decided to do some digging. First was figuring out that it actually was Blue Peter, not The Fixx, whose video I remembered. The song was released in 1983 and the video was by the soon-to-be-celebrated Rob Quartly. Much Music, the Canadian answer to MTV, didn’t go live until August 1984. And the watershed video for “Thriller” didn’t come out until December 1983. Finally, the contemporary art gallery in question, The Power Plant, didn’t occupy those premises or go by that name until 1985, but its precursor opened in 1979. And given its location in downtown Toronto, it’s reasonable that an artsy early video by a Toronto musician might have screened there.
So, all in all, I’d say it’s plausible. In any case, it’s still an interestingly retro-tastic video and a great song from Canada’s little-known but excellent new-wave scene. Well worth checking out.
A twist on sound sculpture: in this case, speakers were used to make gorgeous kinetic sculptures with paint. This is the making-of video.
Erwin Stache, “87,3 Kilo Ohm”
My favourite thing about this sound sculpture is that it encourages people to play together in public.
John Cage’s 4’33” on YouTube:
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I have no idea whether this is a joke or for real, but it’s hilarious in either case.
(via WFMU)
