Tag: Music
Geoffrey Guterl created a hack that allows him to control an XBox 360 with a MIDI keyboard. In the video above, he demonstrates, playing Tekken — and handily defeating his online opponent! — while playing piano. As you might expect, the music produced isn’t exactly Chopin; the limited controls and repetitive nature of gameplay make for a […]
Plastic Infinte, by the audiovisual group sculpture, is 7-inch record with some trippy designs printed on it. Play it, and those designs whir by in a multicolored mush. Shine a strobe light, however, or film it playing at the right shutter speed, and you’re treated to a delightful zoetrope animation. Check it out below. Sculpture is […]
Here’s something you did not expect to be listening to on January 28th, 2014: three brand new songs featuring Elliott Smith singing over synths and four-on-the-floor dance rhythms. Lo and behold, here we are. The songs, dubbed “The Record,” “Dogs,” and “Burn (Aah Fuck),” use vocals Smith recorded with Mike Doughty of the band Soul […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from the Brooklyn psych/folk/rock Woods, who compiled a playlist heavy on live cuts and television appearances. Highlights: garage rock legends The Seeds playing “Pushin’ Too Hard” on a 1968 […]
To create the video for Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s “Everything Is Everything,” filmmakers Santiago Carrasquilla and Joe Hollier shot footage, played it back on an iPad, scanned the iPad screen, then animated those individually-scanned frames together. The resulting clip occupies a pleasing middle space between analog and digital, with warm, inviting shots interrupted by disarming glitches and splashes of color. […]
The Grammys performance that launched a thousand “White Man Group” jokes and surely confused as many midwestern moms and dads now has an official studio version. Here’s Kendrick Lamar guesting on the remix of Imagine Dragons’ inexplicably inescapable “Radioactive.” Kendrick’s verse is about what you’d expect: he leans heavily on the growl that may become […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Pile come from the same Boston basement rock scene that birthed bands like Speedy Ortiz, Krill, Grass Is Green, and Guerilla Toss, but for whatever reason, haven’t received quite the same love as the […]
In Baltimore, Double Dagger are heroes: their records are fantastic, their live shows are the stuff of local legend, and their breakup was cause for a kind of misty-eyed mourning and nostalgia in the city’s DIY scene that wasn’t unlike what’s happening in the wake of 285 Kent’s closure here in New York. Elsewhere, you […]
Johnnyrandom’s “Bespoken” — a piece of electronic music created entirely out of sounds recorded from a bike — has been available on iTunes since November, but the composer just released a promotional video for it this week. In it, we see spokes bowed like violin strings, sprockets struck with mallets, and air compressed air used as […]
In a video published this week, TJ Mizell and his crew hop aboard the J train at Delancey Street/Essex Street and ride it across the Williamsburg Bridge to Marcy Avenue. While they’re traveling Mizell — son of the legendary Jam Master Jay — gets behind the decks, slicing and dicing Jay-Z’s “Tom Ford” and “Show […]
