Category Archives: Music
Skeleton Boy Video Made Me Smile
I really really want to recreate this video at home, but I think I would be in a ton of trouble:
Friendly Fires ‘Skeleton Boy’ by Clemens Habicht from Nexus Productions on Vimeo.
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Music Animation Machine
Watching this visualization of a piano piece has me just a mesmerized as watching the internal workings of an old music box. It’s a demonstration of a piece of software called Music Animation Machine. It’s the same concept, but with a longer piece and the addition of color:
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Radiohead’s “Nude (Big Ideas)” on Old Computer Equipment
You’ve probably all heard about Radiohead’s little game of letting anyone remix their single, “Nude”, but this one takes it to a whole other level. James Houston played forced the tracks out of old and abused computer equipment (or at least sampled them).
He had this to say about the idea:
This was quite a difficult task [...]
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3 Unlikely Drum Machines
What do soup cans, gum balls, and eggs have in common? Well, besides being round, they’ve all been used to trigger programmable drum machines:
The Drum Buddy
Triggered by light shining through holes in a large aluminum can.
Bubblegum Sequencer
Triggered by colored gum balls placed on a grid.
“Almost Certified”
Cumputer sequencer triggers hammers that hit various sized eggs… for [...]
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Kermit Does Talking Heads
This is either the coolest thing I’ve ever seen or I’ve just been staring at the screen all day:
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Radiohead: “In Rainbows”
I downloaded Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” this morning and was disappointed to find that the mp3 files did not include the cover art, so feel free to use this:
I kid, I kid…
But feel free to leave your own two-word-only review in the comments. Could be fun to see the range of responses without all that pesky [...]
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Brian Eno & David Byrne: Mea Culpa video
Sorry it’s been so quiet around here – I hope to be back again soon. In the meantime, enjoy this video from Brian Eno and David Byrne’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” album (1981):
Better quality video, clips of all tracks, and tons of info about it here.
EDIT: more videos here, and here.
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Heima Trailer (Sigur Rós movie)
My little brother just directed me to the official movie site for “Heima”, a film documenting Sigur Rós’s Icelandic homecoming tour. It looks to be a nice mix of interviews, live footage, and stark wide angle shots of some simply amazing outdoor vistas.
The cinematography looks absolutely stunning. Although to be fair, that little island just [...]
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OK Computer Turns 10, Gets Tribute
What’s more shocking: Sterogum putting together an OK Computer tribute from decent artist for FREE, or the fact that OK Computer is freggin’ 10 years old?!
Go get it (.zip)
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Reactable vs. the Poly.Touch