A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in [...]
my sons made another movie. Wolfram made the music and Oskar (14) the film …
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it.
“graindelavoix is fascinated by voices that stop communicating, that have no message anymore but rather are the pure expression of their underground: the gritty, intense and instinctive…” A bit un-human, arty, but still … nice music and beautiful photos on the site..
I love beautifull violin players (f): first there was Saartje, now there is Maie Bertram….
A fantastic combination!
some recordings by Andreas Pfaul …
the Michael classic played acoustic by Chris Cornell ….
Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer and guitarist, best known for his unique acoustic style, and his use of a two-handed lap tapping technique on the guitar…
Done with Cage, done with Stockhausen, done with Reich… Here is KIKO !! Let her hear some contemporary music and immediately she start composing new music, inspired by the moment and the sounds that surrounds her. She looses herself in a deep contact with Muzes vibrations and translates them in touching car shaking and lips [...]
Yesterday night, for the first time I heard John Butler playing guitar …. amazing and powerfull. (The John Butler Trio are an eclectic roots/jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler.)
Bist du bei mir? I don’t think so: you’re dead and I’m alive and kicking. KIKO playsBach
Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo have been working together since their very first meeting, at the age of 12, when they were pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School. Very much inspired by Menuhin, their unified dream was to bring classical music to a larger audience. Now, years later, following in the footsteps of luminaries [...]
Theresa Andersson plays all the instruments and does vocal looping on the fly as she sings ‘Na Na Na’ in her kitchen.
Remarcble: so young and already so gifted … Kiko, the pianist ( age 0 years!!!)(my brother’s daughter)
Hannablue:”one for the boys and the girls, completely over the top, and a bestranging view.
Ballerina’s…”
one of my favourites : the magic of Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius …
hannablue:” sweet combination” Written by Anoushka Shankar & Norah Jones from the “breathing under water” album with Karsh Kale.
Hannablue: “feed the inspiration with this image of a very exceptional sitar playing muze
experimantal. ” (Anoushka, the daughter of Ravi Shankar and sister of norah jones….)
Hannablue:” dance, art, or genius? “
Hannablue :”slow listening….”
We’re designing a stage on a river for this nice opera singer with her 60 piece band!!! “Dressed in a striking purple and pale dress Brueggergosman offers us a glimpse of her warm, voluptuous, expressive soprano and her carefully shaped phrasing” …
Shot May 7-10 in North Hollywood, CA, this video features a cast of, well, many! And what a cast! An amazing group of well known ‘Youtube celebs’ was tracked down and flown in so they could do their thing(s) with the Weezer men. Its pretty much impossible to properly describe what went down, so just [...]
“…. as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free … “
different kinds of blue …
Recently we lost a good friend of ours, and we all grieve for her …. Now, every time I hear these songs, she’s in my mind
Baby Dodds was one of first great drummers of Jazz and the brother of Johnny Dodds.
Today a beautiful person thought me about Joni Mitchell’s cd ‘both sides now’. She (they) moved me deeply:
Rows and flows of angel hair…
I know Bruno: we made music together, we made shows together, … now he made some youtubes on how to play the drum …
Vanessa da Mata, as her names suggests (in Portuguese “da Mata” means “from the forest”) is a force of nature. She was born in Alto Garças, a small town in the central part of Brazil. This 26 year old singer and composer cannot play all the instruments, but she has an overt musicality.
Stairways to Hell (MP3s), 101 versions of the song by Led Zeppelin ….
“IF YOU’RE OUT THERE YOU’RE VULNERABLE. PEOPLE PREFER TO DISAPPEAR IN LIFE, TO REPRESS THEIR PERSONALITY. THAT’S NOT LIVING. IT’S DYING. I SEE THEM ALL OVER THE PLACE, THE WALKING DEAD.”: ladies and gentlemen, here comes …. Grace …
the architect
Look what they’ve done to my song, ma…
usually played on the piano ….
after all, we’ve both been lost for ages,
sketches.
Could she paint my crayons to the colours of the sun .
the great jazz saxophonist, producer, musicgenius steve coleman is always pushing the limits. the limits of music as well as the limits of music distribution and its politics for that reaseon you can download the most of his records for free at his homepage. m-base
m-base is a plattform for musical research and more. you should [...]
Ooooch, I love this song!!! And look at those movies they show, live, during it….
If Madonna is a saint, Joni must be God herself!!!
“Knitted Animation Music Video”
Un superbe clip d’animation réalisé à l’aide de centaines de véritables tricots!
This amazing music video by Director Simon Laganière, for the Quebec duo Tricot Machine, uses artwork of entirely knitted yarn to animate each frame. (A tricot is a plain, warp-knitted cloth of any of various yarns.)
A Battles collaboration with celebrated light artists UVA (United Visual Artists), produced by Warp Films (This Is England, Rubber Johnny, Dead Mans Shoes etc.).
I see this pictures by Sofia Avdeeva, and this song “going to my hometown”, one of the milestones in my musical education, by Rory Gallagher pops in my mind: “I’m gett’n lonesome, I’m gett’n bue, I need someone to talk to…’
6.104.361 viewers … The uploader, Ezsebas, asks on youtube to put on difererent versions of the same video ( tip from cousin Jan )… well I made one…
a song by OL about a Crisis in a Mistaken Relationship…
Simon Rattle, great philharmonic orchestra director….
Oooch, just because…
Die Jungen Geigerinnen” 2006: Alina Pogostkina. LIsten how nice her voice sounds… and she’s a nice musician too….
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: On the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii
‘music for your mood or occasion’ sellected by CD Baby
Carla: “There is no moment of Serge Gainsbourg that I do not like. You know, before I discovered “La Noyee,” I had another Gainsbourg cover that is not so famous–the song with all the animals ["Sois Belle et Tais-Toi"]. The refrain is “Toi, toi, toi, toi sois belle et tais-toi” ["Be beautiful and shut up"].”…
“Ready or not, here I come!” I made a movie to a song I recorded here at home on my mac….
“cockels and mussels”:
lieve:”I’m passionate about music and photography in equal measure and have established a reputation for my imaginative & striking gig, festival & album photography. I specialise in Celtic, folk, roots, jazz and Indie musician photography.”
there’s a sense of quality that we’re looking for in the material that we select. It’s kind of impossible to describe but you know it when you see it—when you come across something that has an aura about it, a certain power that lasts over time. Like a really nice guitar riff or something [...]
Ladysmith Black Mambazo represents the traditional culture of South Africa and is regarded as the country’s cultural emissary at home and around the world. In 1993,
watch out now! James Brown is feelin good! A little too good.
oskar lewis’s “Naked sorrow” Remix of Salala by Angelique Kidjo feat. Peter Gabriel
The trio of Andreas and Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallousten (sweden)
Here’s an oddity… (sweden)
Reich’s combination of repetition and process creates a music full of vitality and energy. His strict, tonal melodic style has brought Reich much critical acclaim, even in a general public that often is distrustful of “new music.” As such, Reich has, in many ways, led a charge toward establishing the accessible and almost “anti-academic” diatribe [...]
“My philosophy,” said Michel Petrucciani, “is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.”
never let a handicap stop you….!!! ( does David Lynch know about him already???)
While he has a knack for getting adult fingers wagging, the desire to tap the fears and free imagination of childhood is at the heart of Cunningham’s creative process. He explains: “When I draw, whatever comes out is what comes out naturally. I don’t see it as ‘dark’. You’re trying to work instinctively, to make [...]
W.Victor, music
W.Victor (Wim Avonts) played in several bands, works as a producer, writes music for movies, sings on two albums with the band “ Virginia Woolf �? and released 2 solo-albums…
to Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim ….
Egberto Gismonti!!! Listen how he plays piano and guitar!!! Talking about being gifted…
Thom Yorke is what is missing in your life
Together witk Tom Theuns and Fons Vanhamel, Soetkin sings a capella @ a ‘tapijtconcert‘ …
famous brother of a famous sister. ( 1 + 1 = more than 2 !!! ) Gert likes to play a ‘tapijtconcert’ for us….
a beatboxband (!), Off The Record, verrrry cool…
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
I met Roy Aernouts in café jeanne. Last year he and his band Noppes played a ‘tapijtconcert’. I found this nice ‘peter gabriel alike’ stopmotion videoclip of the song ‘perspectief’…
he is our king of the ‘levenslied’ and we asked him to do a ‘tapijtconcert’ for us…
We invited Myrddin to play a ‘tapijtconcert’. Myrddin is the youngest son of the famous Belgian multi-instrumentalist Koen De Cauter. Under the wings of his father he learns, at a young age, to play the clarinet (mainly jazz and Gipsy style).
and some movies ….
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Cinoir’s choice….
the most beautiful Belgian singer …
Wannes, straight from the heart!!!
Sometimes we organise concerts… this is one of them …
ryuichi Sakamoto, in my mind since 1983 ‘merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence‘
proud father, beautiful daughter… Gudrun dances on music by Oskar Lewis.
I made a short movie with samples of a musictheatreplay I made and put it on music by Jan Garbarek. Use headphones …! Hope you like it!?!
It’s music day, here. And I got touched by this ‘hurt’ song… Know that his wife died just a week before he recorded this song ….
Who can translate this lyrics in English, please. It’s a song I heard with Stewart Copeland on drums in a Italian folk festival….
I bought the new cd by Tuxedomoon yesterday, I like the old Bowie (lodger) sound in it …
I just like her voice ….
you do know Jacques Brel, don’t you? You do know Don Quichotte, don’t you? …
I want you back … (the new sineod o’connor!!!!)
a youtube- link collection on +/- oldies in pop music …
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” — William Shakespeare
for my father, wherever he is ….
I saw David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland drive‘ ( trailer )last night. one of the highlites in the film is the song: “Llorando” or “Crying” Written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson Performed by Rebekah Del Rio …
“La Mostra 07″ :
When I wake up early on a quiet morning, after a weekend of hard work, and dreaming of my summerhouse in France, I like to listen to the music of abdullah Ibrahim…
a Royskopp song
I was fascinated by the ‘cocoon’-subject. Some more surfing on the subject led me to a very nice clip of Bjork. I read it was banned by some tv-stations because it contained nudity… I don’t get that…
Though she’s one of popular music’s most iconic figures, Annie Lennox is gearing up to release only the fourth album of her 15-year solo career. Songs Of Mass Destruction is out October 1 throughout most of the world, and a day later in the U.S.
The first single, “Dark Road,” just found its way online a [...]
The monks were 5 American GI’s in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo…
A few years ago a jukebox owned by John Lennon was discovered. On it were 40 of the famous musician’s favorite tunes. This is a documentary about the songs on that Jukebox and the influence they had on the Beatles.
you like Sting? Look @ this nice video source … ( for any star, actually…)
“if 6 was 9″
“papa”
“graceland”
“Volare”
“sexual healing”
“china girl”
“the cross”
just a link to the drummerworld website because I like drummers and my daughter always fall’s in love with them…
Paul Simon “The Boy In The Bubble”
Sting “Inside”
Eurythmics “Miracle Of Love”
Bob Marley “Sun Is Shining”
The Hollies “Look Through Any Window”
So how ya doin? You havin’ a good time?
Time. Climb. Lime. Dime. Them’s some words that rhyme with time.
And speaking of time. You’re gonna have a good time at my new movie, “Man on the Moon”!! …
The Beatles “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”
“Why do feminists give blowjobs?”
How many Courtney’s are there … ?
The Beatles “good morning”
I like pictures of girls looking through the window…
30 years of a song …