Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
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Amazing Tupac Hologram
By now, it’s likely that you have seen, heard or read about the technological ‘reincarnation’ which occurred on stage at the Cochella festival last weekend. Tupac Shakur, killed during a drive-by shooting in 1996 (a crime which remains unsolved to … View article
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OK Go: Needing/Getting
Amazing Stuff favourites OK Go have done it again. The masters of the viral video have created the world’s most complicated and creative music video. Don’t believe me? Look for yourselves.
OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two … View article
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Linsey Pollak
Musicians know that while practice does make perfect and having a good tutor really helps, having the right instrument is just as important. That is unless your name happens to be Linsey Pollak, when any old piece of tat will … View article
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Glass harp
In the lull between raging Christmas parties past and the neverending New Year binges to come, why not just take all the half empty glasses that are cluttering up your pokey flat, arrange them into a certain formation and play … View article
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Amazing Christmas light shows
This amazing video puts my anaemic wreath, threadbare tinsel, and anorexic tree to shame: a 16 year old boy from Idaho, with a little help from his Dad, used 35,000 lights, 64 lightning channels, and a lot of effort to … View article
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Pogo
Pogo, a.k.a. Nick Bertke, is a pioneer of music in the post-charts age. Like most artists in the post-charts age, he has come to prominence largely through YouTube; like pioneers of music throughout history, he has developed a style that … View article
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Eric Whitacre’s amazing virtual choir
This year, Amazing Stuff has featured incredible internet based projects from the likes of Aaron Koblin, Chris Jordan and Chris Milk. Eric Whitacre is the next addition to this posthumous list of cyber-revolutionaries.
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OK Go: Human kaleidoscope
If any band has mastered the slippery art of the viral music video, it is OK Go. With a total of over 125 million views of their video creations on You Tube, OK Go are probably better known for their videos than they are for their music. But they are more than just eccentric and well synchronised dancers: they are helping to forge a new model for bands in the internet age.
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Amazing live mashup
What do you get when a 17-year-old mashup DJ maestro lets himself loose on the 21st century’s answer to the piano?
Well, you get what you’ve got in that video up there: amazing stuff!
The finger-dancing phenomenon is French DJ … View article