Ice Drum Solo (making of)

Thanks to Dave Hurlin via Facebook

Awesome Hang Drum Solos - Dante Bucci

Thanks to Dave Hurlin via Facebook.

The Hydraulophone - New Musical Instrument

It's not every day you see a new musical instrument... Especially a cool one!

More here.

Beatboxing Flute - Super Mario Brothers Theme

The Chameleon Guitar

Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of control to manipulate the characteristics of an instrument's sound. Now, a guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of both worlds.

The Chameleon Guitar -- so named for its ability to mimic different instruments -- is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber.

More at MIT.

Meta Viral Video - Pork and Beans

The opening chord to "A Hard Day’s Night" is also famous because, for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing.

Four years ago, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, Jason Brown of Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve the Beatles’ riddle. The process allowed him to decompose the sound into its original frequencies using computer software and parse out which notes were on the record.

It worked, to a point: the frequencies he found didn’t match the known instrumentation on the song. “George played a 12-string Rickenbacker, Lennon had his six string, Paul had his bass…none of them quite fit what I found,” he explains. “Then the solution hit me: it wasn’t just those instruments. There was a piano in there as well, and that accounted for the problematic frequencies.”

“Music and math are not really that far apart,” he says. “They’ve found that children that listen to music do better at math, because math and music both use the brain in similar ways. The best music is analytical and pattern-filled and mathematics has a lot of aesthetics to it. They complement each other well.”

More on the Mystery Beatles Chord

Face Music

Daito Manabe:Direction,programming and composer.

Human Beatbox Beardyman

Very cool video from Boing Boing.

Old Scool Dancing - Not So Old School With Daft Punk, eh?

Lala: Access Your Music Anywhere

Very interesting. Check out Lala.com, a service that allows you to upload and stream your whole music collection for free, or buy streaming music for cheap. Sign up and get a credit for 50 songs.
Thanks to RM.

Awesome Tambourine (Pandeiro) Music

Marcos Suzano, Jorginho do Pandeiro e Celsinho Silva

The Ultimate Internet Meme Video - Pork and Beans

Sign Language Song - Beautiful

This is the D-PAN interpretation of Christina Aguilera's song, "Beautiful".

Thanks to LRM.
Click here for a larger version from D-Pan.

Seeing Sound Waves

Simple yet elegant experiment.

Jose Feliciano - Flight of the Bumble Bee

Food Court Musical

From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, 16 agents create a spontaneous musical in a food court in a Los Angeles mall. Using wireless microphones and the mall's PA system, both their voices and the music was amplified throughout the food court. All cameras were hidden behind two-way mirrors and other concealed structures.

This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past six years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.

Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King.

Awesome Mongolian Folk Rock

Altan Uraq.

Guitar Rising - Real Guitar Hero

GuitarRising
by jakeparks

I never got the whole Guitar Hero, Rock Band and their fake guitars playing thingie, which require so much practice to master that you may as well use a real guitar to become as good as Satriani. That's why I love the idea of Guitar Rising, which can use any real electric guitar, from a Fender Telecaster to a Gibson Les Paul. The software teaches you how to play actual songs, tracking your accuracy much like Guitar Hero would do, as their demo video shows.

Rather than learn fake guitar, kids, play something that teaches you real guitar!

McCain "Obama" Video Parody

See the Obama Video we posted a few days ago if you haven't already.