Animal Collective’s “My Girls” in 8-bit form. Somehow this works pretty well as a pixellated chiptune song.
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Tag: music
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8-bit Animal Collective
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Composer Harry Partch Demonstrating Unique Instruments
A video of composer Harry Partch demonstrating some of his innovative musical instruments, including the excellent 11-tone diamond marimba. Henry was an uncle of ex-Disney/Lantz animator Virgil Partch (aka VIP), a factoid I didn’t know until today!
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Static: an Interactive Approach to Animation
Static: an Interactive Approach to Animation by Jack Lykins. Using a turntable and midi-controller via Max/MSP Jitter to drive the playback of an animation sequence. (via Cartoon Brew)
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Make Some Noise
Dr. Bleep from Dr. Bleep on Vimeo.
Make some noise.
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Suzanne Ciani on 1980s Omni TV
(video no longer available)
A segment from the early 1980’s TV version of Omni magazine features electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani developing the chip-based vocalizer and music samples for the pinball table Xenon (her official site has much more about her work on Xenon’s sound if you’re interested). Found via the Make Blog (I think)
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Pre-NIN Trent Reznor and his Cleveland band The Exotic Birds
Pre-NIN Trent Reznor and his Cleveland band the Exotic Birds featured in a 1986 news clip about new-fangled electronic music sampling, along with a clip of Thomas Dolby justifying his use of the computer in music-making.
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Krazy Kat Cartoon with Restored Soundtrack
For possibly the first time in 80 years this Krazy Kat cartoon, Ratskin, has been reunited with its original soundtrack recording, discovered on a rare Vitaphone disc in Australia. Found via Cartoon Brew, who has a good writeup of the discovery.
(note for George Herriman fans: the animated escapades of Krazy generally have little to do with the comic strip, more closely resembling Oswald the Lucky Rabbit or Felix the Cat’s hijinx)
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AR Record Scratching
Todd Vanderlin’s working on a project using OpenFrameworks and ARTag markers to simulate scratching a real record but using a camera as a the virtual needle. Nifty.
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Bohemian Rhapsody performed by old PC equipment
A thing of beauty.
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Gurney Was Still Haunted by the Baroque Search for
Gurney was still haunted by the Baroque search for a perfect vacuum, by the study of the phlogiston, as part of the philosophy of nature. So, like a mad Jesuit, he built a piano that played glowing bottles filled with burning hydrogen. Norman M. Klein, in Building the Unexpected. From The Vatican to Vegas, 2004 p150