Posted in Creativity, Music, People, Video on Feb 3rd, 2012 2 Comments »
Linsey Pollak is brilliant. Some of the best beatboxing coupled with creative musical instrument overlays I’ve ever seen. Turn it up, enjoy Pollak’s musical creativity. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Music, People, Video on Dec 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
Interview with Brian May, lead guitar player of the group Queen about his Red Special guitar that he and his father built from scratch. The “Whammy bar” is made out of one of his mom’s old knitting needles. Perfect. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Music, People, Video on Dec 28th, 2011 2 Comments »
Bobby McFerrin is a national treasure. Here he is improvising with a rather large group in a stadium who know exactly how to stick with him. Here he is doing his thing at TED:
Posted in Events, Music, Video on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
The Maccabeats celebrate Hanukkah. Ya gotta love these guys, they’re so un-self-conscious it makes me smile. The Maccabeats on Wikipedia and The Maccabeats web site.
Posted in Music, Places, Video on Dec 3rd, 2011 2 Comments »
They Might Be Giants isn’t a group I follow or listen to although I know they’re quite popular. Somehow I love the names “Istanbul” and “Constantinople.” Don’t know why but I’ve head them rattling around in my head since I was a kid; my father’s mother came through Constantinople on her way to the US [...]
Posted in Drumming, Music, Video on Nov 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Stomp in an apartment. Okay, some of it is staged, remixed, edited but it’s the ideas and spirit that count. Great stuff. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Animation, Music, Smigly, Social Software, Video on Sep 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Alan Mezquida and smigly do it again.
Posted in Music, People, Video on Sep 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Glen Gould was a musical genius, no doubt about it. Many thought and think he was mildly autistic but whether he was or wasn’t he had odd quirks which made and in retrospect make him a fascinating character. Gould was known for his vivid musical imagination, and listeners regarded his interpretations as ranging from brilliantly [...]
Posted in Ideas, Music, People on Sep 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
Sony’s Norio Ohga, the ‘Father of the CD,’ Dies at 81 Ohga’s connection to music affected the specifications of what became the compact disc. Ohga insisted that the CD be designed to be 12 centimeters (4.8 inches) in diameter so that it could hold 75 minutes worth of music. It was necessary for the CD [...]
Posted in Audio, Music, NPR, People on Aug 28th, 2011 No Comments »
First Watch: Norah Jones And Tony Bennett ‘Speak Low’ Together Listen to this on good speakers, it’s killer good. This tips me to buying Bennett’s new album when it comes out: Duets II. Bennett is 85. They’re both musical geniuses.
Posted in Animation, Music on Aug 27th, 2011 2 Comments »
A brief history of Betty Boop Great short video on Betty Boop. Max Fleischer was a genius. Here’s Betty with Cab Calloway behind her. Amazing collaboration.
Posted in Music, People on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Jerry Leiber, Prolific Writer of 1950s Hits, Dies at 78 Jerry Leiber, the lyricist who, with his partner, Mike Stoller, wrote some of the most enduring classics in the history of rock ’n’ roll, including “Hound Dog,” “Yakety Yak,” “Stand By Me” and “On Broadway,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 78. More [...]
Posted in Creativity, Music, People, Tools on Jun 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
What makes the Stradivarius violin so special? Ms Todes agrees that Stradivari’s instruments were “exquisitely crafted, the pinnacle of sound engineering”. She says the quality of a Stradivarius is “down to someone who was always trying to do better, he was always getting feedback from players, there was constant self-criticism”. However, Dr Whiteley points out [...]
Posted in Apple, Copyright, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Music, Social Software on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Music Industry’s Blessing Lifts Hopes For iCloud NPR’s Laura Sydell has a nice overview of Apple’s upcoming iCloud announcement. Worth listening to even if you know quite a bit about it already.
Posted in Music, Process, Video on May 17th, 2011 3 Comments »
Product by Process has a nice collection of videos on the process of making vinyl records. The first one is embedded above.
Posted in Audio, Gadgets, Ideas, Music, NPR, Tech Stuff on Mar 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
Whatever Happened To The Audiophile I have a dedicated two-channel listening room. My passion is for vacuum tubes and this set up consists of a KT88 based tube amp, tube preamp, tubed CD player, tubed digital-to-analog converter that is partnered with an iMac for digital files and wonderful pair of very efficient speakers. Power to [...]
Posted in Music, Video on Dec 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Shop Vac from Jarrett Heather on Vimeo. A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac. Created using After Effects, Toon Boom Animate, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere. It’s fantastic. Full screen, turn it up. Enjoy. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Music, Video on Dec 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
From Yeshiva University’s a capella group The Maccabeats comes this reimagination of Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite.” Happy Hanukkah This is great fun: Singing, spirit, and video. Enjoy and happy Hanukkah. Zoom it out, full screen. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Creativity, Music, People, Video on Dec 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Wow, great stuff. The looping is great and his choices of what to loop and how are right on the money.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music on Sep 29th, 2010 2 Comments »
One Hello World Leave me a voicemail and I’ll write music behind your narrative. Call it a soundtrack to your thoughts. Listen to these, they’re incredible. Somehow reminds me of The Apology Line. [via Coudal Partners]
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