A video for Nashville-based electronica artist Makeup And Vanity Set (Michael Pusti) by Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins in which a tech enthusiast attempts to scam a retail platform by claiming his new monitor was never delivered, requesting a refund.
At first, the site’s AI reacts politely to the scammer’s increasing rudeness, then it exacts sweet revenge.
Whys and wherefores here.
An impressive animated video by Oskar Alvarado for a new tune by techno duo MachineCode (Dean Rodell and Current Value) – a science fiction future world loosely inspired by the ancient Mesoamerican myth of the serpent deity, Kukulkan.
A very pleasing hand-drawn short by Ho Tsz Wing set to ‘Catgot’ by UK-based electronica duo ISAN.
A stonking cover of The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ on night one (last Thursday) of Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin’s Hanukkah Sessions – celebrating eight songs by eight famous Jewish artists each night of Hannukah.
Chag urim sameach!
For Whovians and fans of early electronica alike, The Definitive Guide To The Doctor Who Theme Music is a fascinating guide to the construction of that iconic piece of music. To wit:
Created in 1963, the Doctor Who theme was one of the first electronic signature tunes for television and after nearly five decades remains one of the most easily recognised. The original recording of the Doctor Who theme music is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, recorded well before the availability of commercial synthesisers.
Explore it here.
Above (top pic): Delia Derbyshire who, along with Dick Mills, arranged the theme music based on Ron Grainer’s composition.
You’ll like this.
‘Villon Song’ by East London minimalist folksters Stick In The Wheel (Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter), animated by Daniel Hardiker and Neil Hetherington of ZEROH.
A cant song, translated into London slang by W.E. Henley – a ‘straight tip to all cross coves’. To wit:
For all your efforts to get money it’ll only be your ruin: “Booze and the blowens cop the lot”.
A rather excellent video for Ilhan Ersahin’s “Hurri-Mitanni (Good News)i” directed and animated by Gökalp Gönen in which a series of digitally camouflaged dancers morph and sway their way through (and tower above) the streets of Istanbul.
You may be reminded of this.
Youthful Thom Yorke-looking guitar virtuoso Ichika Nito likes a challenge – specifically, detuning his guitar to near-unplayabilility then creating beautiful sounds despite that.
Above: what he can do with alternate E and F tuning, all-E tuning and all-F tuning.
As a prima ballerina in New York during the 1960s, Marta C. González performed Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake perhaps hundreds of times.
Marta had Alzheimer’s and recently passed away. But in this poignant footage, filmed last year in Valencia, interspersed with clips of her past performances, she is reanimated by the music of the ballet, recalling choreography that she still knew by heart.
A new instalment of The Hood Internet’s ongoing series of pop mashups: 60 songs from 1993, artfully squished into 210 seconds.
Previously: 1990
