Everything is a drum: two large men edition
By now these guys have been on late-night TV and tons of folks have seen them. But it’s so good I had to help spread the word anyway. Here is “Tummy Talk 2”:
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Favorite feed: Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast by Defacto Sound
Twenty Thousand Hertz is a great, easy-to-listen-to podcast with stories and interviews about those hidden elements of sound and sound design throughout our world, the ones you might never have considered or even heard of before. The NBC chimes, the voice of Siri, the sounds of the cars we buy, the hum generated by a secret government project—lots of neat little explorations.
What a music recording engineer actually does.
Fantastic, short, hilarious video formerly known as “The profession of a sound engineer 2013.”
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Diego Stocco’s Custom Built Orchestra.
Now here’s a man living out his love of sounds. A great introduction to Diego Stocco via his Custom Built Orchestra:
The EQ of Food: Torpedo IPA.
A while back I realized I think of the taste of a beer in terms of a frequency response curve. Here’s the latest: The EQ of a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA. Plus a few questions and observations, mostly about how nuts this all makes me sound.
Orchestras through the eyes of GoPros.
24 GoPro cameras distributed among the players and instruments of the Czech Philharmonic under maestro Manfred Honeck. Some neat points of view, especially if you’ve never played in an orchestra before.
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Virtual choir: performance, and technology, and… wow.
Composer Eric Whitacre, known for stirring choral compositions, has for several years been doing an experiment he calls “Virtual Choir”. He makes a guide track available for one of his pieces—something to sing along to—and asks the public to record themselves singing their part on camera and send it to him. In this particular rendition, “Virtual Choir 3,” you are apparently hearing 3746 voices from 73 countries performing together. Whoa.
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 3, ‘Water Night’
Everything is a drum: large man edition.
Yup. This happened.
Musical instruments made of ice.
In Norway (them’s my peeps!) there’s an annual music festival where all the instruments are made mostly or entirely of ice. Look for the cello. That’s right, a cello.
For more info: icemusicfestival.no. Or watch this news piece.
Here in the U.S., there was a University of Michigan ice percussion concert in 2011.
Cool. Pun intended.