SFGate Culture Blog: The Cinematic Orchestra coming to Bimbo’s
Oh damn, I’m totally going to this. Will be interesting to hear what they sound like live. Instrumentation: drums, double bass, piano, guitar, saxophone, laptop and voice.
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post talked famed violinist Joshua Bell into busking at a DC Metro station during the morning commute for an hour. Exactly one person recognized him and he made 32 bucks.
Processing audiovisual piece, multi-touch interface - flight404.com
Cool Processing driven audiovisual piece by Robert of flight404.com. He’s controlling aspects of the visualization to “compose” to the music live through a LEMUR multi-touch interface. Check out the video.
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Concert Vault – Where Live Music Lives
More live concerts. Some jazz but mostly classic rock.
New York Times Video - Jazz and Art
NYT video on a new art inspired Jazz suite called “Portrait in Seven Shades” commissioned by Wynton Marsalis and composed by saxophonist Ted Nash. Each movement was inspired by a different 20th century painter.
YouTube - Giants steps solo by a Robot
From comments: “I flagged this video as inappropriate due to graphic violence. The way they butchered and mutilated Giant Steps made me ill. Couldn’t they program this fucking thing to Play some Kenny G and not disgrace the greatest jazz mind in history?”
Nabaz’mob - Opera for 100 smart rabbits
“100 Nabaztag smart rabbits, brought by their owners, did meet at Centre Pompidou, in the same spirit as flashmobs, to all play together an opera specifically composed by Antoine Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birge.”
YouTube - Ruben’s Tube
Sound visualization using fire. Via smadden.
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BBC NEWS - Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
Banksy swaps out 500 copies of the Paris Hilton CD across the UK. I can’t imagine an equivalent response in the US from store owners: “I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic enga
Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last - New York Times
The result of some serious YouTube-related investigative reporting by the NY Times. We can only hope we see more and more of this…
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The Ghost in the Buddha Machine: An Interview with Christiaan Virant of FM3
FM3’s latest release is a portable, hardware loop-player containing nine short loops of FM3 music called the Buddha Machine. A “remix” of cheap Buddhist prayer players as mass produced in China.
YouTube - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
An amazing sequel to OK Go’s first dancing video - this time with treadmills!
Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names
Secretarial Magnet, Asparagus Polytechnic, Bourgeois Drosophila, Dignity Sufferers. Gigabyte Tribunal, Bangle Sessions…
Flash MP3 Player
“This Flash MP3 Player supports streaming playback, RSS/XSPF playlists, various playmodes, color/size customization and a javascript API.”
Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
“The world won’t get no better if we just let it be, nah-nah-nah-nah-naaah-na-naaaaaah”
HURRA TORPEDO total eclipse of the heart
Instrumentation: vocals, guitar, freezer, oven, range.
The Aural Times - We Sing the News So You Don’t Have To
Portland based “Aural Times” writes a little ditty for one news headline each day. The H5N1 song and “Iran to Pursue Atomic Research Despite Russian Plan” are my favs so far.
Powaqqatsi
A stunning film. The live music by the Philip Glass Ensemble was great, especially the opening theme and later the “call to prayer” by the vocal solo. Lucky to have caught it live at Davies.
Feet Me
Photography collection… of musicians feet.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hacker
I think this guy’s analogy is lame, and I told him so.
Stanford on iTunes
Lectures, interviews, music and sports from Stanford on iTunes. Interesting.
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musicBottles - Exploring the component parts of a musical performance
Each part becomes audible when that instrument’s bottle is uncorked. Interesting problems shown in video - ie representing real time interaction of jazz parts. Also “affordances” of glass bottles good for listening, not for music making (mixing.)
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Ninjatune Artists - The Cinematic Orchestra
Heard on last.fm. Want to get my hands on their “Man with the Movie Camera” DVD.
Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
A concert performed entirely through the ringing of the audience’s mobile phones. (2001 - Austria, Switzerland)
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
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Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.