Michael Jackson’s 1982 megahit like you’ve never heard it before – soulfully covered by sitar maestro Ronobir Lahiri.
Category Archives: Music
DJ Preschool
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Behold the Blipblox – a soon-to-be-released synthesiser and beatbox for ages 3 and up.
Now stop beholding it and let the child have a go.
Of this painstakingly measured, pleasing-to-watch physics whatchamacallit, DoodleChaos sez:
I’ve synchronized the song “Fade” by Alan Walker to the physics of a Line Rider track drawing everything by hand. It only took about 3 months of work! I’ve listened to the song thousands of times while making this and I still love it.
Geequations
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Listen carefully.
Redditor Dani Ochoa performs the Mos Eisley Cantina tune and the Imperial March from Star Wars using mathematical formulae. To wit:
It started with x+4… and I couldn’t unhear it. Instead of doing my math homework I figured out what the Cantina Theme would sound like if your instrument was a pencil.
A chain reaction marble run perfectly synchronised with Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers by kinetic artist Mark Robbins, who sez of it:
After listening to parts of this song hundreds of times to match things up I went a bit crazy
A deft dub by Mylo The Cat wherein residents of Bikini Bottom perform The Next Episode by Dr. Dre: starring Spongebob as Dre, Patrick as Snoop Dogg, Squidward as Kurupt, and Mr. Krabs as Nate Dogg.
DJ Earworm’s annual mashup of the biggest US charters of the year.
Download for free here.
Previously: United States Of Pop 2016
Synaesthesia
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Off The Staff: visualisations of classical music (digitally generated using free music notation software Muse Score and Open Score) by ‘designer, data freak and fractal nut’ Nicholas Rougeux.
Above (from top): The Four Seasons: Winter, Antonio Vivaldi; William Tell Overture, Gioachino Rossini and Flight of the Bumblebee, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
In these circular sweeps, as if laid down by the minute hand of a clock, each instrument is represented by a different colour. Each dot represents a note in the score. Pitch is indicated by the distance from the centre of the image, while the time at which the note occurs is given by the angle from the 12 o’clock position. The size of the dot indicates the duration of the note.
Rougeux (who, rather adorably, can’t read sheet music) adapts the traditional representation of scale, telling MyModernMet:
I did away with that and showed all notes in their natural position on the scale—distance from center—no matter how high (farther) or low (closer) they were. Essentially, while sheet music shows notes from different scales on the same staff, my project shows different staffs on the same scale—hence the name, Off the Staff.
Oh My!
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A 60cm x 80cm blueprint by Dorothy (€39.18 +P&P) based on the circuit diagram of a classic turntable. To wit:
Our Hip-Hop Love Blueprint celebrates over 700 MCs, DJs, producers, turntablists, musicians, graffiti artists, b-boys and b-girls who (in our opinion) have been pivotal to the evolution of hip-hop, from pioneers such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash to present day chart success stories Kendrick Lamar and Drake, and global superstars Jay-Z and Kanye West.