Animusic: Mesmerizing Computer-Driven Music Animations

28 May 2013 Leave a comment

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Animusic is an American company founded by Wayne Lytle which specializes in 3-D visualizations of MIDI-based music.

Rather than creating an animation to accompany a piece of music, the Animusic process involves first creating an animated model, which is then programmed to follow the commands of MIDI-programmed music–to “play” the piece.

To fully appreciate the mesmerizing HD video, be sure to watch it in full screen.

Other Animusic videos can be seen here.

DVD and Blue-ray compilations are available from their website.

The European Perspective Looks at the Top Prog Albums of 2012

27 Jan 2013 2 Comments

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The European Perspective is a place for fans of British and European progressive music to gorge. The site’s weekly podcasts can run between four and five hours, covering prog from its origins in the late ’60’s and ’70’s to the very latest releases.

I must warn you: if you’re any more than a casual fan of the genre you may find it hard to keep your visit to the site a brief one. It’s a rich listening experience full of diverse, interesting music you probably won’t be exposed to elsewhere. And all (as their name suggests) with a distinctively European perspective.

Check out their special year-end show, featuring their top 25 progressive rock albums of 2012 as voted by their listeners:

http://www.theeuropeanperspective.com/?p=1853

 

ELO Mix Baroque with the Beatles–And Other Treasures from Jeff Lynne Tribute Channel

21 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

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Electric Light Orchestra’s live cover of The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” is from a 1974 live album called The Night the Light Went On (In Long Beach) which though recorded in the U.S. was, somewhat ironically, only released in Europe. Thus even loyal fans in this country have never come across this performance. 

Similarly to the band’s early covers of “Roll Over Beethoven” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King” this is another early example of Jeff Lynne’s fusion of classical music with rock and roll, later achieved more seamlessly on hits like “Livin’ Thing” and “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”.

Note Lynne’s sly amendment to the lyric, changing “she’s a big teaser” into “she’s a prick teaser” (probably what McCartney wanted to say.)

This and lots more great ELO tunes appear on the YouTube Jeff Lynne tribute channel movejefflynnelo with upgraded audio, and painstakingly synched with vintage videos. It’s a treasure trove for fans of ELO and Lynne’s previous band, The Move.

http://www.youtube.com/user/movejefflynnelo?feature=watch

 

‘MajorScaled TV’: Minor Scale Songs Digitally Modified to Major Scale

20 Jan 2013 8 Comments

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What would minor-scale hits like REM’s “Losing My Religion” and Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” sound like had they been written and sung in major scales? Now we know. MajorScaled TV is a site where such songs are re-worked digitally into major-scale versions.

Now that killer on the road in the Doors’ “Riders On the Storm” doesn’t sound like such a menacing fellow somehow…

https://www.facebook.com/MajorScaledTv

 

Sad YouTube: A Blog Devoted to Heartbreaking Memories and the Songs that Evoke Them

24 Dec 2012 3 Comments

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“Brian Hyland – Sealed with a kiss 1962″

“God this song brings so many memories to me.. This is the last song I heard with my brother the night before he died.. Than like if he was telling this will be our special song, This same song was playing when we were making arrangements for the funeral next day.. This will always be my brothers and my song..”

– thelma1212,

Mark Slutsky’s blog, Sad YouTube, is devoted to highlighting YouTube music and the comments it evokes–specifically the saddest, most poignant and nostalgic comments. Hard times, breakups, unrequited love and even separation brought about by death are all recurrent themes. It’s tearful reading at times, and the feeling of sadness heightened by a song is a familiar one to us all.

http://sadyoutube.com/

 

Symphony of Science: Education (Auto)Tuned to Young People

17 Oct 2012 2 Comments

The world of science is indeed full of wonders. Would you ever have believed you could buy a 7″ vinyl record of a song by Carl Sagan?

That would be “A Glorious Dawn”, one of 17 or so bits of science-as-entertainment produced so far by a project called Symphony of Science. The songs and their accompanying videos give scientific and philosophical concepts a pseudo-chillwave musical treatment and feature (with the help of our old friend auto-tune) such prominent figures as Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Hawking and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Check out the site for more:

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

Video by Ed Cyphers

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