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Finding Music in The Patterns of Cars on the Freeway
Brazilian multimedia artist Jarbas Agnelli experiments with musical phrases determined by cars crossing a lamp post on a New York freeway small loops of footage.
Villains of the 80s on Fake Pop Album Covers
Rocky Davies takes these 1980s villains and mashes them up with 1990s music for this series of fictional album covers.
Weapons Transformed into Musical Instruments
Mexico City based artist Pedro Reyes transformed a mass of rifles, pistols, and shotguns taken by the Mexican army from drug cartels to build the musical devices that are controlled by computers and can be pre-programmed, a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm.
Brief History of Sampling - From James Brown Onward
Eclectic Method schools us in this video on the history of sampling in hip-hop and dance music, including classics like “Funky Drummer,” “Amen, Brother,” “UFO."
Song of the Day - Keep Together by Hunter Hunted
From the band's Facebook Page:
Hunter Hunted is Dan Chang and Michael Garner. The Los Angeles duo weave intricate vocal harmonies and heart beat rhythms into voluminous, soaring songs that toe the line between California indie and folk rock.
To say that they've accomplished a lot in a short amount of time would be an understatement. Since the bands inception in January of 2013, they've been included in Nylon Magazine's "Bands to look out for", Teen Vogue's "Jam's of the year", Billboard Magazines "Scouting Report", and KCRW's "Bands we Love". With standout track "Keep Together" making the rounds on TV shows like The Vampire Diaries and The Real World, the band has performed everywhere from The Conan O'Brien show to SXSW. Four weeks since their Billboard charting debut, the band is keeping busy, doing a US tour with Fitz and the Tantrums followed by a West coast tour with The Mowgli's.
TOKYO CITY SYMPHONY: 3D Map Imaging
For the 10th anniversary of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, we are presented this absolutely stunning digital projection mapping project in conjunction with the Tokyo City Symphony.
Song of the Day - Ex Factor by Quadron
From wikipedia:
Quadron is a Danish duo consisting of singer Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj and musician/producer Robin Hannibal. The group calls itself and the music they provide, electronic soul.
5 - Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix played on a Gayageum
Here is Luna Lee playing her version of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child on the gayageum.
From wikipedia:
The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, although more recently variants have been constructed with 21 or other numbers of strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument.
It is related to other Asian instruments, including the Chinese guzheng, the Japanese koto, the Mongolian yatga, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh.
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1 - Vivaldi's 4 Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter
From the project page:
This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”
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4 - Billy Joel Answers the Question
Fan Michael Pollack stood up to ask his childhood idol a question during the Piano Man's recent Q&A at Vanderbilt University.
He asked to play with him. Joel answered.
"...and that's how you get to be a horn player in NYC... take a chance" Joel after the song.
If you don't ask, you don't get.
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3 - Ice Record
Swedish indie rockers Shout Out Louds wanted to make a splash to introduce "Blue Ice," the first single off their upcoming Optica. The worked tiwhTBWA Stockholm, to make a kit that would make a playable record out of ice.
They sent out only 10 kits to fans and press. Fascinating idea.
Here is the full single.
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4 - Family Guy Voices Rap "Look at Me Now"
The voices of Family Guy give Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" a new shine.
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5 New Albums I Am Thankful My Friends Told Me to Get
New stuff from Cat Power?! The first original from the singer in 6 years and well worth the wait. If you don't know CP, this is a good entree.
As much as I have liked Bloc Party, I wouldn't have thought to look out for new material from them, but am glad my friend Jamiel thought to tell me about it.
3. 'Money Tough by Run Dun Crew
Born out of the unique creative environment that is the Bluefields Sound System studio 'Money Tough is the union of Bluefields’ raw local youth talents Kali Boom and Papa Bantam with international House Music DJ “Evan Rhodes”. The album Money Tough exemplifies the struggle that musicians face living on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua as well as gives you the flavor and style of its Caribbean roots.
I have this friend, Tobey. If I look through my music collection and look for the artists and albums that really standout, chances are Tobey introduced me to them. The same is true for The Grimes. With her crystalline voice and the tracks churning electronic beats and beeps, these tracks are catchy and stirring.
5. Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
We live around the corner from the Wiltern Theater and often see lines of fans lined up for new artists. The line for Frank Ocean wrapped around two blocks with some of the most interesting and stylish fans I've seen there. There is something to this guy. Not sure how to explain it. But I like it.
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POTD - Faint Music by Robert Hass
Faint Music
by Robert Hass
Maybe you need to write a poem about grace.
When everything broken is broken,
and everything dead is dead,
and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt,
and the heroine has studied her face and its defects
remorselessly, and the pain they thought might,
as a token of their earnestness, release them from themselves
has lost its novelty and not released them,
and they have begun to think, kindly and distantly,
watching the others go about their days—
likes and dislikes, reasons, habits, fears—
that self-love is the one weedy stalk
of every human blossoming, and understood,
therefore, why they had been, all their lives,
in such a fury to defend it, and that no one—
except some almost inconceivable saint in his pool
of poverty and silence—can escape this violent, automatic
life’s companion ever, maybe then, ordinary light,
faint music under things, a hovering like grace appears.
As in the story a friend told once about the time
he tried to kill himself. His girl had left him.
Bees in the heart, then scorpions, maggots, and then ash.
He climbed onto the jumping girder of the bridge,
the bay side, a blue, lucid afternoon.
And in the salt air he thought about the word “seafood,”
that there was something faintly ridiculous about it.
No one said “landfood.” He thought it was degrading to the rainbow perch
he’d reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass,
scales like polished carbon, in beds of kelp
along the coast—and he realized that the reason for the word
was crabs, or mussels, clams. Otherwise
the restaurants could just put “fish” up on their signs,
and when he woke—he’d slept for hours, curled up
on the girder like a child—the sun was going down
and he felt a little better, and afraid. He put on the jacket
he’d used for a pillow, climbed over the railing
carefully, and drove home to an empty house.
There was a pair of her lemon yellow panties
hanging on a doorknob. He studied them. Much-washed.
A faint russet in the crotch that made him sick
with rage and grief. He knew more or less
where she was. A flat somewhere on Russian Hill.
They’d have just finished making love. She’d have tears
in her eyes and touch his jawbone gratefully. “God,”
she’d say, “you are so good for me.” Winking lights,
a foggy view downhill toward the harbor and the bay.
“You’re sad,” he’d say. “Yes.” “Thinking about Nick?”
“Yes,” she’d say and cry. “I tried so hard,” sobbing now,
“I really tried so hard.” And then he’d hold her for a while—
Guatemalan weavings from his fieldwork on the wall—
and then they’d fuck again, and she would cry some more,
and go to sleep.
And he, he would play that scene
once only, once and a half, and tell himself
that he was going to carry it for a very long time
and that there was nothing he could do
but carry it. He went out onto the porch, and listened
to the forest in the summer dark, madrone bark
cracking and curling as the cold came up.
It’s not the story though, not the friend
leaning toward you, saying “And then I realized—,”
which is the part of stories one never quite believes.
I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain
it must sometimes make a kind of singing.
And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps—
First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing.
Hass is undoubtedly the poet who has had the greatest impact on me, both as a reader and as a poet. I was first introduced to his book of prose poems, Human Wishes, and then quickly read my way back through Praise and Field Guide. I still have Meditation at Lagunitas memorized to this day.
1 - Neil Young's Gorgeous 17-minute video for Ramada Inn
Mid-20th-Century archival footage of driving has the tone that is recognizable to anyone who has listened to and loved Neil Young's music.
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2 - Kuduro
Kuduro is a music, dance and fashion culture emerging from an Angolan sub-culture.
Os Kuduristas is a global program launching in Paris, Amsterdam and Stockholm this September 2012 to promote and raise awareness of Kuduro.
4 - Tenori On Used to Great Effect by Little Boots
The very interesting tech--instrument, the Tenori On seems like a toy, until in the hands of a talent. Here, for example, is Little Boots making music all on her own. It is so great to see here layer elements on, and hear it come together.
5 - Pole Dancing Magic - Diplo's Set It Off feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex
Diplo's newest, Set It Off featuring Lazerdisk Party Sex, honors the athleticism, grace, sex appeal and strength of the pole dancer in these fun and astounding visuals.
4 - The Wizard of Meh: New From Pogo
Pogo makes a lot of fans very quickly with his catchy, clever, uncanny video mixing music making. Here is his latest. We've covered him before, and below are some of our favorites.
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