Years: Playing The Rings Of A Tree
German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck found a way to “play” cross-sections of a tree, generating sound by scanning the spinning rings on the surface of the wood with a PlayStation Eye Camera. This data is transmitted through the control arm (which has a stepper motor attached) to a computer, which generates a music track.
Take On Me
A-ha’s eternal pop performed by young accordeon players from KUM SONG School, filmed in North Korea. It’s a part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Norway.
Michael Winslow – Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin
Michael Winslow on Senkveld med Thomas og Harald.
The Disciples
Between 2004 and 2007, James Mollison attended pop concerts across Europe and the USA with a mobile photography studio, inviting fans of each music star or band to pose for their portrait outside the gig. He subsequently combined portraits of 8-10 fans for each performer into a single line up, making a single panoramic image...
Music from a Dry Cleaner
Experimental musician Diego Stocco passes in front of a dry-cleaning establishment almost every day. The sounds that came from the machinery there fascinated him, so he got permission from the owner to turn those sounds into a song. There are more details in his making-of post.
Pictogram music posters
Viktor Hertz, who was behind the awesome Pictogram movie poster series and the equally impressive Honest Logos, has resurfaced with a new set of work: Pictogram music posters, depicting a few chosen songs in different genres. Brilliant! Again.
Jon Schmidt feat. Steven Sharp Nelson
Every single sound on the video was made using only the instruments shown: piano, cello, mouth percussion and kick drum.
