Look what Youtube put on their front page:

Wow. Im impressed, and the video is pretty sweet.

The Collective Memory Of Men With Beards

I think it'd be a good band/song name.

and their first album could be entitled Waterboarding.

...it would be about surfing, of course.

An Ethnomusicological Moment

Did you know that the Chicken Dance of french origin? INDEED IT IS. It even has words too. In french, however, it is called the Duck Dance (Le Dance des Canards)

Regardez:

Yesterday i found this so beautiful i couldn't help but start crying like a baby



Sometimes i do that and its kinda embarrassing. Oh, and then i write posts about it and put it on my public music blog for everyone to see. Kinda pathetic, but i think its sincere, and there are only maybe 3 people who read this anyway. i hadnt heard this amazing music in over a year, so maybe thats why. Or maybe im just a big sob.


I love bulgarian women.

Whitney Music Box - var. 11 "minute waltz" -60 keys in 60 seconds.

Check this out

This is brilliant stuff, gorgeous stuff (well, more visually stunning than anything), its a graphic with music determined by the spinning visuals- with 13 variations total.

you guys are awesome

Just a little note/link to the wonderful temporary re-blog set up by the hard-working folks at anablog.

I have... no time. I shouldn’t even be typing it as its cutting in on my sleep-schedule.

Koyaanisqatsi was good- personally not mind-blowing, not revolutionary, surprisingly (visually)minimalistic in its emphasis on (visual) repetition (but i guess thats the point). I really did enjoy it, the music fit perfectly (though i thought there were many passages that were just a little too slow for me), the film gave me a different perspective of the kind of workings of the urban/industrial/manufacturing world.

Like anything minimalistic, at its best it left me in a giddy dizziness, disorienting and with a sense of awe. At its worst, it left me audibly yawning.
Some parts i wish the music were a little more diverse (organic, the grid). The film itself could be spectacularly beautiful and even moving in its coldness, in its objective "portraiture" of both individuals and the crowd.

I have many things to say, but i gotta get up early. Best be off.

I've been perusing Youtube.com recently (like many others right now). Its growing by leaps and bounds and its very interesting. Right now you can find many different music-related videos - from strange home videos involving stravinsky, bowling balls and model cars, to videos of new, Avant-garde minimalist opera. Not to mention the dozens of home videos and art-projects involving the music of philip glass.... you can watch parodies of koyyanisqatsi, babies listening to koyyanisqatsi, some video bloggers awkward reaction to 12 parts... on and on.

On the other end of the spectrum you can watch (and listen) to performances of debussy, ravel, beethoven, bach, etc, by students and professional musicians. Its a great resource if you're wanting a concert but dont have the time. I think i could spend far too much time on youtube.

Un peu de musique classique...

C'est Super!

This is pretty funny. It gets better as it goes along. Probably my favorite performance of vivaldi and strauss to date. Regardez!, c'est tres amusante.

I cant tell if its canadian french or france-french....eh well.

( you dont need to understand a word of French to get this)

The Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding

This has got to be one of the nerdiest things i've seen in a very long long while. I received it in an email from a professor, but here it is... The Kant Song

I actually made an analogy today to something in music to something in Kant, and now i cant remember what it was...