‘I See Beats’ is an interactive installation by Kyle McDonald. It is a beat sequencer where you’ll need a few people with mobile phones to create a sound. You have to hold up your phone with the screen lit, a webcam tracks your position and puts your phone on the sequencer grid. Normally you don’t get anything decent when a few people try to use an interface like this one, but here the result is quite good.
I wonder why no artist already did something like this during a concert …
This is the music video for ‘Maledict Car’ by the Japanese band Jemapur. It was directed by Kosai Sekine and part of the art project ‘Tokyo Ten‘ initiated by the W+K Tokyo Lab. Beautifully mirrored!
Today would have been the eightieth of Karlheinz Stockhausen, a German composer. Here is a short video of one of his most famous compositions ‘Helicopter String Quartet’. The video explains it all.
Sean Dunne made this little documentary about ‘The World’s Greatest Music Collection‘. Paul Mawhinney used to have a record store, from each record he sold he kept the last one to add to his archive. So in the end he has an unique collection of 3.000.000 records. Unfortunately he has to let go of it, but apparently no one shows any serious interest in buying it.
This movie is heartbreaking, Paul really was in it for the love for music.
This is probably an unofficial music video for Bergwein by Efdemin, but worth to watch and listen to. If you liked this one, you’ll probably want to hear Spark by Lawrence too. Both release their music on Dial, which is having a Dial Records Night on August 29th at the Panorama Bar in Berlin.
Portishead in Portishead - a 31 minute piece filmed in December 2007 in the drama block at Geoff Barrow’s old school, Gordano School in Portishead and featuring 7 songs from Third.
Ah … French pop music, if it looks good, I could be interested. So this is the new music video for ‘Ce Jeu’ by Yelle. It was directed by Yoann Lemoine and styled by Jean Paul Lespagnard.
Can it be more French than that? Colorful!
‘Made In Queens‘ is a short documentary directed by Nicolas Randall and Joe Stevens. It’s about a small crew of 6 Trinidadian teenagers in Queens, New York, who customize their BMX bikes with huge soundsystems. They gave their bikes even names:
Timbap is a platform-independent application for augmented DJing. It was developed by students and assistants of the University of Ulm (Germany). It provides a rugged tangible interface for browsing your music collection and manipulating playback by scratching, pitching, skipping etc. Like many others it is based on an acoustic timecode signal recorded to vinyl records. In contrast to existing digital solutions however, it completely releases the DJ from mouse, keyboard and monitor. Instead it relies on physical interaction with the standard club turntable only.
It still sounds quite strange, right? So basically it is a projected video interface for selecting mp3’s. Maybe this video will make it all clear to you.
Guessing from the amount of student DJ projects, there are a lot of bedroom DJ’s among the students out there.
