Interesting doc-music-video detailing the production and stories behind The Beatles legendary tune A Day In The Life. Fascinating how much of it comprised of little ‘accidents’ which could never happen in today’s recording process, but culminate to make the track truly genuine and authentic.
[via Cynical-C]
Brilliant rendition of Nude by Radiohead, performed entirely by old tech. The Sinclair zx loading bit at the beginning had the memories flooding back (it lasts for about 1:10, if you prefer to skip).
It doesn’t sound great, as it’s not supposed to.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-86 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 4c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
This is a pretty noval approach to filming a video, especially if you have no budget for camera’s, lighting or those big silver, padded boxes. Manchester band; The Get Out Clause, performed for their video in-front of CCTV cameras, then requested the footage under the Data Protection Act. A little bit of editing and a fascinating music video was born.
[via BoingBoing]
This is a brilliant advert for the Zürich Chamber Orchestra where the musical score becomes a rollercoaster of classical music.
[via Signal vs. Noise]
Fascinating visualisation by London-based video artist; Bon-Bon, combining light and sound in the way that music programs always promise but fail to deliver.
Also worth seeing some of his other work, especially Mind The Step another visualisation in a different style.
Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water, played in an ancient Japanese style by Ooedo No Hikeshi.
Potentially an epic soundtrack to a Kurosawa-inspired movie…
[via Neatorama]
A crazy disco remix of a classical Japanese folk song and a little bit of Stevie Wonder, all put together with a bad (keygen-esq) midi synth background score.
Sound appealing? Wait, there’s more…
The video is animated by the surrealist oddball Teppei Maki, and is as odd as it is surreal.
[via Pink Tentacle]
This is a fantastic music video entitled ‘The Child’ by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and DJ Alex Gopher, it shows a high-speed taxi journey in a city entirely constructed by type.
[via information aesthetics]
The lovely wave above shows what music I have been listening to since June 2006, I have enlarged the last few months so you can read the text.
This was all created by scrobbling my music in winamp and iTunes to last.fm, then using the lastgraph plotter to visualise it.
Too bad nothing exists to plot this kind of a graph using other data, such as the tags I have used in blog posts over the past few years.
I know what you are thinking…there is not enough crazy balkan gypsy klezmer music in my collection.
Well the Belgian DJ Typsy Gypsy (how can it not be good with a name like that?) has put together a really nice mix and offers it free to download (at a high quality).
Download Typsy Gypsy - Balkan Hot Step (direct link part 1, direct link part 2)
[via BoingBoing]
Perhaps it is the influence of the new Guitar Hero expansion, but this really has to be the pinnacle of hilariously bad 80’s rock video over-production.
A simply awesome one-take music video for Grip by the Norwegian band zZz, definitely worth having the sound on even though it plays little direct relation to the video.
[via information aesthetics]
Give it a little time to get going…and it is actually pretty impressive. Perhaps not as energetic as the Daft Charleston, but still pretty coordinated.
[via Neatorama]
The geek group presents the Super Mario Brothers theme tune, played exclusively with the musical tesla coils and enough electricity to power a small country.
Also on the playlist is Korobeiniki (or the Tetris Theme to you and me), the theme from Jaws and of course
the 1812 Ovature.
[via VideoSift]