umm…wow!
Imagine Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells set to an animation like this…that would be truly amazing. There are some other parts of the Animusic on youtube, but since this is actually a dvd for sale don’t expect them to be online too long.
[via Centripetal Notion]
Since the original video has been removed from youtube by copyright babies lawyers, I thought it would be worth putting this alternative version up as well.
Sorry, had to remove the embedded video because the crappy MySpace player automatically plays it as soon as it is opened. Which is a little unfair to those viewers who aren’t interested.
The original video for Pink Floyd’s Welcome To The Machine by Gerald Scarfe.
Classic!
What happens when you mix a traditional Serbian folk tune with a bunch of urban street youths…well…this…
[via Cynical-C]
This is the video for A Tried and Tested Method by The Longcut, I am not wonderfully keen on the music, but I love the infographic stylings of the video. It is a nice rip-off development of the classic Royksopp video for Remind Me, adding a storyline to the graphics.
[via Kottke]
Ahh…brings hours of mushroom-eating and turtle-stamping right back!
This is a collection of very entertaining videos of various people playing the Super Mario Brothers Theme Tune on various instruments (including Balalaika, Clarinet Quartet, and some nerd Hand Farting it)
Warning: by the time you have seen half of the videos the tune will be stuck in your head for at least 12 hours…
[via BoingBoing]
This is kinda fun, it is a realtime display of what has just started playing on the radio accross the US and where the radio station playing it is located.
Sure is a lot of music being played…!
Found a fascinating article by non-other than Franz Zappa, written in 1983 it is giving a heads-up to the music industry that if they continue in their misguided ways that doom will befall them. Which is kinda what is happing now…
The bulk of the promotional effort at every record company today is expended on "NEW MATERIAL" . . . the latest and the greatest of whatever the cocaine-tweezed A&R Brass has decided to inflict on everybody. More often than not, these 'aesthetic decisions' result in mountains of useless vinyl/cardboard artifacts which cannot be sold at any price, and are therefore returned for disposal and recycling. These mistakes are expensive.
He goes on to suggest a new form of digital distribution of music, veeery simalar to the iTunes music store's business model except charging monthly for music based on genre. He also mentions the Long Tail concept of media demand (although obviously not by name).
The other article I must mention is one based on a simalar tack, just generally talking about the demise of existing mass-media corporations in favour of internet content, and the mistakes that they are making right now which is sealing their future.
Mmmm…cultural revolution in progress…
A Proposal…by Frank Zappa Here
5 Ways The Media Commits Suicide Here
Sick of people bugging you to change the music? Want to control winamp without leaving the bed? I guess this comes pretty high on the lazy-tools scale, but I thought i must blog it…
Browseamp is a neat little plugin for winamp which hosts an http server and allows you to control an instance of winamp through the webpage. Suprisingly enough it works REALLY well and is very simple to setup and use.
It allows for the remote creation of playlists as well as volume control and pretty much everything that you can do with winamp. It also integrates a user permissions system, just incase u were worried about security…
Another alternative to this, for those using a symbian60 os mobile phone, is Bemused which i have been using for many years to control the jukebox with the phone…this does require bluetooth though.
BrowseAmp Here (control through a network)
Bemused Here (control through a bluetooth phone)
A gallery of the worst album covers to ever be photographed…there are some real classics in here, including this slightly disturbing one at number 3.
This is what it says on the box of the iPod Shuffle…valuable advice i guess.
Interesting thing is on the UK box it says 'Do Not Chew The iPod Shuffle', Yanks eat, Brits chew…apparently it is ok for brits to just swallow it whole.
Concrete TV is a show on NYC Public Access. It is basically a video montage of all sorts of different clips put together to music.
It is quite nice, although the authors description of himself as the greatest video editor of all time might be a bit of an overstatement.
This page has a list of the top 20 album covers (in their opinion) of 2004. Some very nice ones here, rally highlites the lost visual media of the mp3 revolution.
ah well…
This is a comment about the way music sites are designed, it outlines five ways that most designers of band, label and community sites often slip up…
To ruin the surprise they are:
Too much Flash
Crappy or non existent mp3 metadata
Too artsy, too fartsy
No search
One-way communication (served one way)
The page has descriptions of each and tips as to how to avoid falling into the same traps…
I must also extend this criticism to computer game sites, as they tend to follow exactly the same format.
This is one to remember when the music industry begins to whine that their business model isn’t working anymore. Sales are up!
This surely cant be happening with so many people ripping off their music, perhaps all these people who have been saying that downloading music actually promotes artists rather than hurting them weren’t talking rubbish…