‘Live looping’ by saxophonist Armin Küpper using the sound of musical phrases returned from long sections of pipe .
More of his echoey tunes here.
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Toccata
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A ‘live action musical animation’ by Optical Arts in which familiar objects cascade and smash to the sound of the first part of ‘Toccata and Fugue in D Minor’, by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is.
The first post-lockdown concert to be staged at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre Del Liceu.
The performance – conceived by Spanish artist Eugenio Ampudio – of Giacomo Puccini’s “I Crisantemi” by the UceLi Quartet was enjoyed by an audience of 2,292 houseplants, each one occupying a red velvet seat
A self-isolated but pleasingly frisky cover of The Cure’s ‘The Lovecats’ performed by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
Mashup maestro DJ Cummerbund’s homage to Danny Devito’s turn as ‘man cheetah’ from ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ – seamlessly blending tracks by Hall & Oates, The Strokes, The White Stripes and Chris Isaak.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ updated version of his prescient 1970 lament to environmental destruction, set to an animated video by Chris Hopewell filmed on sets made with recycled materials, including trash from the ocean.
1989
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The Hood Internet reaches 1989 in their ongoing year-by-year mashup of the biggest pop tunes.
Listen to 1979-1988 here.
Previously: 1984
A buzzy cover of the world’s most covered song, performed by the nice man at Franzoli Electronics on a pair of Tesla coils.
Boy, that’s some nicely modulated effective break rate though.
A deft merger of the Isley Brothers’ ’Shout’ and Motörhead’s ‘Ace Of Spades’ by mashup master Bill McClintock.