December 8, 2009 – 10:37 am
Sean pointed me to this video for a song called “I’ll Be Gone” by Mario Basanov & Vidis (feat. Jazzu).
If nothing else, check out the effect that starts around 1:52. I swear it works as a metaphor for the transient nature of music. Man, music visualization is cool.
December 7, 2009 – 11:12 am
Today is busy busy, so have a music video that starts out all meta and gets even more meta-y. Thank you, MetaFilter, for making my morning by pointing me to this.
December 4, 2009 – 12:34 pm
Item the first: “Such Great Heights”, by The Postal Service.
Item the second: “Fireflies”, by Owl City.
The Postal Service was Ben Gibbard’s and Jimmy Tamborello’s side project. It mixed Gibbard’s deft melodies with Tamborello’s glitch-electronica beats. Owl City is Adam Young plus his laptop and a backing band. Critics have compared Owl City to The Postal [...]
December 2, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Even when they get a budget, OK Go still turns out excellent videos.
November 10, 2009 – 7:54 pm
This is so strange and frightening. Note that it’s on the official Pearl Jam YouTube channel, which means, yes, that’s what the band is up to these days.
Edit: Whoops, it’s gone already. Sorry if you didn’t get to see it!
November 6, 2009 – 3:22 pm
It’s the weekend! Let’s celebrate like vampires!
You know, I’m not really sure those guys are actually vampires at all.
October 26, 2009 – 11:10 am
The guitar parts for Modest Mouse’s “Dashboard”.
I had no idea I’d like a Johnny Marr/Modest Mouse combination, but it turns out I do.
October 23, 2009 – 12:16 pm
Here’s something to liven up your Friday: a very spacey video for “My Girls”, by Animal Collective.
October 22, 2009 – 8:48 am
John Boswell, aka Colorpulse, can keep making these songs starring Auto-Tuned scientists and I will happily keep listening to them. This one has Richard Feynman (including his bongo playing!), Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan.
If you want to hear more as they come out, Boswell’s set up a new site, Symphony of Science, [...]
September 28, 2009 – 11:05 pm
How do you visualize music? Can you turn an auditory experience into a visual one? Scores are one way of doing just that.
While a score requires training to read fully, you can follow along when it’s paired with the music. That was part of the allure of early computer music programs like the Music Construction [...]
