YouTube clips as instruments
Joshuah Bearman says:
The guy peruses god knowsh how many clips of songs, historical performances, homemade bedroom noodling, high school band recitals, and low budget YouTube instrumental instructional videos, and combines them to form his own songs. The result is seven diverse -- and good! -- songs of various genres. That first one arranges some fairly active and original funk out of dozens of different instruments and melodies, including a guy with a mullet playing a theremin.UPDATE: Joel posted this on Gadgets on March 4.
I Know it is a Bold Declaration, But The YouTube Mash-Up Just Took a Step Toward Art
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It brings to mind DJ Shadow's Entroducing.
This just made my Internet.
NICE!
DJ Shadow v2.0
That's pretty flippin' cool. Added some sparkle to the day, thanks!
..and nice to see Bernard Purdy gettin' some love :)
GREAT FUCK! That was AWESOME!
That was mashtastic!
Very inspirational. Hope to see this become a solid new genré that builds and spreads. I'd like to see a more multi-national approach down the road (if someone hasn't done it already).
There's nothing that the proper attitude won't render funkable.
Brilliant.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/04/thruyou-an-album-mad.html
F*ck. Yeah. Awesome.
The third one, "I'm new" is.. amazing.
Wow!
What a lot of work, but what a rush that must have been putting it all together!
I'm going to send this to several musician friends forewarning them that they might want to take precautions against shitting themselves.
THIS!
Yes, my mind has been blown repeatedly by these remixes. Make sure to click on the credits to see links to all the original clips.
kick ass!
Wow, amazing!
According to kutiman's profile, though, it's 7,578 videos watched, rather than "god knowsh" [sic] how many.
Muy fantastico!
The real pioneers of this were Emergency Broadcast Network. The did the George Bush "We Will Rock You" and other stuff. They also put an album out. This stuff is great.
Wow. That was really awesome.
What's especially cool is that with the video you have a visual representation of how each work is sampled. When you see the upright bass player's fingers jumping back and forth as he plays the riff at the beginning of "I'm New", you can tell it's not just a simple lift, but a new melody created from the raw material of the original.
Mostly I just like how most of these people were playing and singing alone in their bedrooms, living rooms and basements all over the world, and now, thanks to Kutiman, they're all playing together.
Just awesome. Truly gives new meaning to the phrase "greater than the sum of it's parts."
Whoooo!
Reminds me of NoiseHouse but for the Internets. I like!
Carved out of win. One of the coolest things to ever dribble out of the intertubes. Kutiman has some other vids up, but this one wins.
Wow... I don't know what else to say. Amazingly beautiful music.
I passed right over this when Joel posted this in Gadgets. Mark, you get points for a better subject.
Sure this is not Coldcut/Hexstatic in disguise?
There is something magical about things created from the massive amount of lightly categorized human experiences available through the web.
It's like peeking through the eye of the universe and seeing the beauty of the human experience.
I don't know how else to describe it - there's just something that feels right about taking lots of unrelated information and arranging it in such a way as to produce art.
If you liked this, and I most certainly did. You may also want to check this out:
Playing For Change: Song Around the World "Stand By Me"
Granted this is not a mashup or an original composition, but an amazing arrangement no?
I like this.
Lawrence Lessig has compared this to Jefferson's Moose
xenmaster@#31
If I had read that comment before I saw that clip, I would have thought you were talking airy-fairy nonsense.
But, man, that clip is amazing, and I think you just might be on to something....
conceptually very similar to hofun's three piece band. i would link to it but it seems to have been removed from the internets.
:-( this makes me a sad panda.
the kutiman vids nearly make up for it. (its more accomplished but i don't like to lose things)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y7Oa4CpjRY
found the three piece band vid it is still awesome
I just came in here to say almost EXACTLY what #31 said. Spot. On.
Fepic...all I can say is FEPIC!!
Wow! Wow! Meets my needs for Beauty and Divine Inspiration.
That. Is a thing of beauty.
Words are failing me at the moment.
Wow.
The first time I watched Funk Chords I couldn't stop grinning. This is great stuff.
And the coda on I'm New is absolutely amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4#t=4m36s
#31 is right on.
And to Joshuah Bearman (the LA Weekly blogger), this goes way, way beyond taking "a step toward art." This IS art. It has beauty, meaning and the power to move souls in a way that only the finest art can.
Awesome. Getting all the various keys and tempos to match must've been a bit of work.
isn't that Cory on the Bass?
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had to be funk - love the funk. wonder if it would work if you mashed some classical together