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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Morten Lauridsen shows you how to write a song.
In a great little seven-and-a-half-minute video courtesy of classicalchops.org, Morten Lauridsen takes us through the compositional process behind one of the most performed choral pieces of our time, Dirait-On. (French, pronounced something like “dee-ray-tawn”.)
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: 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.