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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audio / entertaining / industry insight / inspiring / interviews / media / science / sound / sound design
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.”
composing/songwriting / entertaining / inspiring / media / music / music performance / music recording / scoring / sound / sound design / video
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:
Music For One City And Six Drummers: Sound of Noise
Okay, remember “Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers?” Sure you do, it’s the very last thing I posted before this.
Well, they made a movie out of it. I mean, out of the idea of basing a film on percussionists invading a space and making music with what they find there. Looks like a ton of fun.
Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers
Love drumming? Love watching entertaining short films? Love making music out of found objects? Love envisioning how you’d tackle a challenging production sound problem?
If you answered yes to all four of these questions, I really, really hope you’ve seen this.
Bone-cam.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen anyone do this yet. Dave Finlayson, trombonist with the New York Phil, gets clever with his video camera. The performance is great but… I just can’t stop laughing.
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Aside from the entertainment and the performance itself, anyone who wonders how a trombone works is getting a close-up look. You can actually see the various distinct positions the slide has to be held at, and the quick but fluid motion necessary to get between them for a clean change of pitch.
Old Spice Muscle Music.
In case you haven’t heard / seen / tinkered with this yet… you have to watch “Old Spice Muscle Music.” And be sure to noodle around with it after the short video is done. As a drummer and sound guy I was weirdly entertained!
Old Spice Muscle Music from Terry Crews on Vimeo.
Vsauce asks: Will we ever run out of new music?
A neat little edutainment channel on YouTube, called Vsauce, is full of geeky-fun videos about fascinating science questions. One I really enjoyed watching:
“Will we ever run out of new music?”