The clip is about half way down this article involves speeding up whalesong and comparing it to nightingale songs and discovering they are quite similar. Fascinating stuff.
There are eleven populations of humpbacks around the world, each covering their own ocean-sized territory. These populations each boast not only their own dialect of song, but also their own anthem of sortseach whale singing the same sequence of the same sounds. But week-to-week, month-to-month, and year-to-year this song evolves, as the whales collectively create new phrases and patterns, totally in sync....while the whales in each population have distinctly different dialects of song, all the whales within a population change their song together synchronously. A populations territory can span thousands of miles. This emergent synchronization means that a whale in Mexico and a whale in Hawaii may each sing a different song this week than they did last week, while still singing roughly the same song as the other whale this week. No other animal develops its music so rapidly and regularly, let alone doing it in sync.
There's more video further down the article on techniques for creating sheet music from whalesong. Oh, and apparently whalesong has "rhymes".
This is not that recent, and maybe I mentioned it before (though a search suggests not) but I thought of it again today for some reason: a song video that I admire. It's low budget and simple, but also clever and quite impressive to pull it off in one continuous take. Good song too. (Have seen the banjo player live with Kishi Bashi a couple of times - he's great). Waiting on the Day by Tall Tall Trees.
This: "On a fascinating and readily available video clip from a 1972 TV show, David Rosenboom, sitting cross- legged before an electronic keyboard, demonstrates the use of biofeedback to make music, with neural input from Yoko Ono and John Lennon, while Chuck Berry looks on."
Or maybe the worst? I'm not sure if anyone else will appreciate this, but if you're it all interested in the PC Music phenomenon, check out GFOTY at SXSW:
I still have no idea what I think about PC Music, but I do find them fascinating. I also have to admit to laughing pretty hard at the DMX/Tiffany section of that.
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There's more video further down the article on techniques for creating sheet music from whalesong. Oh, and apparently whalesong has "rhymes".
Waiting on the Day by Tall Tall Trees.
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Pretty sure that's the father of trumpeter Daniel Rosenboom, who is no less creatively ambitious with his music...
http://danielrosenboom.bandcamp.com/
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Thanks for that Frisell vid. Hadn't seen that one yet.
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Urban Sax
Craig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i2rqotXKIw
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Warren G and Kenny G do "Regulate" on Kimmel.
RIP Nate Dogg.
Craig
Phillipe Foch - Nektaar Live at home
Go Pro Camera falling 10,000 feet!
Craig
Stephen Hawking Sings Monty Python
http://m.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-gfoty-gfoty-boiler-room-sxsw-dj-set
Craig
The sharp-eyed bus passenger
Chris Cutler / Roulette TV excerpt
Achwgha Ney Wodeï - "Petit Paul"