For all you guys that have purchased an Apple computer with Leopard or Snow Leopard you will have gotten this lovely introduction below. “Uh, duh David! So what?”
Now I’m admitting ignorance here by saying that I naively thought that the music for the OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard intro video was created in-house by Apple. But apparently not because the band Honeycut created this song with their hip-hop infused experimental musical style. And of course I love it.
What do you think of their music? Comment! Click click click!!!
Just discovered this great music by a UK based alternative/ambient band Codes in the Clouds. I was checking out some work of indie filmmaker, Mike Hedge, when I came across this video right below. Wow! The music is so moving, and I love the creative aspects of this teaser done by Mike Hedge and Miguel de Olaso, also known as simply Macgregor.
Check out their latest album Paper Canyon. Really great stuff!
So I know I just blogged about Diego a few days ago, but I happened across Diego Stocco’s tweet about his collaboration with Hans Zimmer! Wowza!! So cool!
In this video Hans and Diego are discussing different techniques and tools for Experibass. You should also check out the the photos and more details on this on Behance.com on this collaboration.
You gotta see this! This is totally captivating. Diego performs a complex rhythmic musical composition using only various parts of the tree for different tones or pitches (think timpani or tom toms). And what’s awesome is he captures it all in Pro Tools on his MacBook Pro. I die!! He’s a musician after my own heart! LOL! Check him out: diegostocco.com.
Here are his notes:
In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it.
To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs by trimming them with a pencil sharpener. I used two Røde NT6 and a NTG-2 as microphones, combined with a customized stethoscope.
I recorded the tracks live on a Pro Tools LE system. I didn’t use any synthesizer or sampler to create or modify the sounds. All the sounds come from playing the tree, by bowing the twigs, shaking the leaves, playing rhythms on the cortex and so on.
Teaching a lesson on Igor Stravinsky today. I played the “Finale” from the 1919 version of the ballet “The Firebird”. They love it! Once one finds a way to get kids to actively listen to classical music and love it, you’re in after that. You can teach them anything about music, just so long as you start where they are and bring them to where you need them to be as far as their music education is concerned.
Now, the coolest part of having them listen to the Finale is the big orchestral hit midway through that makes them jump. It’s so funny, and they laugh and have so much fun afterward. This is the best year I have had as a music educator since starting in Fall 2005. I still don’t anticipate doing this for much longer, but I do try to enjoy it as much as I can while I’m still in it.
