Tag: music

September 29, 2014 at 5:29 pm

This is What The Beatles Look Like as Pancakes

This is What The Beatles Look Like as Pancakes

Nathan Shields is an illustrator, math teacher and self-proclaimed ‘professional dad’ to two wonderful kids. As a way to entertain them he began creating pancake art. It’s creative, delicious and fun for the kids, what more could you want? Here’s the Beatles as pancakes set to an instrumental cover of “Something” by The Beatles…

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September 23, 2014 at 1:11 pm

Watch These Dancers Waltz on the Side of a Building

Watch These Dancers Waltz on the Side of a Building

Bandaloop dancers Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber take vertical choreography to new heights on Oakland’s City Hall during the Art + Soul Festival. Music is “Hopeless Romantic” by William Ryan Fritch.

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September 15, 2014 at 1:02 pm

Producer Makes Song by Sampling Video Clips of Amateur Musicians on YouTube

Producer Makes Song by Sampling Video Clips of Amateur Musicians on YouTube

Kutiman is a producer that samples video clips of amateur musicians on YouTube and edits them together to create songs. Kutiman just released his latest single, Give It Up, off his upcoming album Thru You Too which comes out October 1st. Be sure to check out Kutiman’s YouTube page for more, where you can…

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August 21, 2014 at 4:10 pm

Picture of the Day: Railroad Sheet Music

Picture of the Day: Railroad Sheet Music

Artwork by Artur Bordalo Street artist Artur Bordalo aka Bordalo II, recently completed a series of artworks that incorporated railroad tracks. You can see the complete series on his Facebook page. In this particular version, Bordalo turned the tracks into a giant version of sheet music. The pieces were done on railroad tracks in…

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August 14, 2014 at 2:33 am

Guy Plays Fur Elise in Various Styles While Waiting in Prague Airport

Guy Plays Fur Elise in Various Styles While Waiting in Prague Airport

While waiting for his flight at Prague Airport in the Czech Republic, piano player and musician Maan Hamadeh sat down at a public piano and played Beethoven’s famous Für Elise for an unsuspecting crowd in various styles and renditions. The unexpected performance was a treat for other passengers, I can’t think of a better…

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August 8, 2014 at 5:58 am

This is What a 3D Printed Saxophone Sounds Like

This is What a 3D Printed Saxophone Sounds Like

Olaf Diegel previews his incredible 3D printed alto sax design. The sax has 41 components excluding all the springs and screws. It is printed in nylon on a SLS machine and weighs less than a quarter of a real sax (575 grams vs 2.5 kg. A couple of the notes are slightly out of…

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August 5, 2014 at 9:39 am

Farmer Serenades Cattle with Trombone Rendition of Lorde’s Royals

Farmer Serenades Cattle with Trombone Rendition of Lorde's Royals

The title says it all!

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July 25, 2014 at 1:49 pm

How Playing an Instrument Creates Fireworks in Your Brain

How Playing an Instrument Creates Fireworks in Your Brain

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive…

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June 22, 2014 at 4:38 pm

A Master Cellist and Street Dance Legend Get Together and Make Something Beautiful

A Master Cellist and Street Dance Legend Get Together and Make Something Beautiful

An incredible collaboration between master cellist Yo-Yo Ma and street dance legend Lil Buck. The performance, entitled The Dying Swan, was recorded by director Spike Jonze on his cell phone Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) was a child prodigy and was performing by age five. The artist has recorded 75 albums, won 15…

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June 17, 2014 at 12:39 pm

OK Go’s Newest Video is 4 Minutes of Non-Stop Optical Illusions

OK Go's Newest Video is 4 Minutes of Non-Stop Optical Illusions

OK Go’s newest song/video The Writing’s On the Wall, is 4 minutes of non-stop optical illusions. This catchy compendium of visual trickery will leave you convinced that your eyes can (and will) play tricks on you. The ambitious video took nearly three weeks to assemble and over 50 takes to nail. The single is…

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