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:
The physics of music, illustrated.
Check this out: guitar strings silhouetted against the sky, filmed from the inside of a 12-string guitar as someone plays a tune called “Lick Mountain Ramble.” The “stop-motion” effect induced by the very nature of video lets us see the lengths & shapes of the waves which are resonating through each string.
The mysterious power of music: treating dementia.
The title of this post on NPR’s site says it all: For Elders With Dementia, Music Sparks Great Awakenings.
We are so deeply connected to music I don’t think we yet understand the breadth and depth of it.
Voiceover Funnies: sound choir at the oscars
A while back, this group of voice artists (singers? actors? both?) appeared on the Oscars to provide the soundtrack to a montage of classic film moments… with just their mouths and bodies. Yes, they do all the sound effects and foley with vocal noises and body percussion. For a musician and sound geek like me, it’s AWESOME.
Voiceover Funnies: Five Men and a Limo
Continuing with my little series of funny voiceover links, here is another V.O. classic called “Five Men and a Limo,” featuring five huge (and instantly recognizable) voice over talents, led by the late Don LaFontaine. It was produced for the Key Art Awards some years ago.
Voiceover Funnies: the Comedian trailer.
I’m starting a little series of entertaining voice-over related links. First, and a real classic now for me, is this trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s film, The Comedian. Jerry’s not in it. Instead it features ubiquitous trailer voice over guy Hal Douglas, essentially mocking the many bombastic, big-voiced movie trailers that certainly must be his bread and butter.