Music In The Round… On Your Headphones
With a virtual reality headset you can experience The New Dublin Voices performing Thomas Tallis’ “Spem In Alium” in the round—right in the middle of it.
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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”:
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:
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.
The mysterious power of music: music and healing.
A fascinating individual with a great TED talk on a beautiful subject. If you’re interested in the seemingly magical properties of music to affect us in surprising ways, Robert Gupta’s presentations are must-see talks.
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.
Voiceover Funnies: great V.O. artists read the Star Wars screenplay
A table full of top-notch V.O. artists reading the original Star Wars screenplay in character as Pinky, Brain, Bender, Yosemity Sam, Poof, Cartman, Batman, Inspector Gadget, Bill Cosby, William Shatner, Kramer from Seinfeld, and tons more.