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Matryomin

The Matryomin is a theramin-like instrument housed in a Russian doll. Here’s an all-Matryomin Japanese ensemble doing Dvorak’s #9 “Going Home” theme:

Bike Cam

‘Nother bike cam circles the city. Tunnel’s a nice touch, “Spoke” film by swobo, Radiohead cover music by RadioDread:

You Suck at Photoshop

They’re already into Season 2, but if you can’t keep up, go back to the basics, My Damn Channel You Suck at Photoshop #1:

Josh Quittner recently wrote an article for Time, “The Photoshop Guys Revealed!” unmasking the creators of the enormously popular and hilarious Photoshop tutorials “You Suck At Photoshop”. The 10 episode series (Season 1) on My Damn Channel was created by Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch (Troy does the voice of Donnie) of the creative agency Big Fat Brain, who designed the My Damn Channel website and are the guys behind the series “Tim after Tim”.

Load Off Fannie

“Take a Load Off Fannie,” and Freedie too. And put the load right on us; a music video (song: The Band “The Weight”) by Omid Malekan of Visual Stories:

HV Learn Radio- Links

We’ve updated and link-checked our list of tools, talks, guides and other online radio how-to’s: HV Learn Radio- Links.

Job Market 2009

Your economic forecast, “Job Market 2009:”

Trapped in an Elevator

At the New Yorker, security cam video of 41 hours “Trapped in an Elevator“:

via Public Radio Redux.

Daily Comparisons

Once again the only news network with a sense of history and, I guess, a research staff, is… the Comedy Channel; it’s Rove v. Rove and O’Reilly v. O’Reilly in this Daily Show’s “Sarah Plain Gender Card” segment:

Dipity Timelines

The Internet Meme timeline in a previous post is from an outfit called: Dipity “the easiest way to tell the stories of people and topics you care about.” They’ve got other apps to make timelines based on search term: TimeTube for YouTube,Tickr for Flickr, and Archaeologist for Digg. For instance, here’s YouTube vids found with the search term “hearvox” — the tag for HV-productions:

Yoshi in Cambodia- Lisa Miller

Try this touching short film by (friend-of-HV) Lisa Miller of a garbage-picker in Phnom Penh, set to music by the Flaming Lips, “Yoshi in Cambodia:”

Art of Larry

At NPR’s blog is a wonderful short film & essay by Art Silverman about Sundays, stories, friendship, coffee, cooking, and “Smokin’ Larry” Massett.

“Larry changed my concept of what could be done on radio.”

Raising the Ghost- trailer

Trailer for new fish film w/ (my kid) Jess Atkins and some great music— “A new fly fishing documentary, ‘Raising the Ghost,” chronicles 7 epic days of fly fishing in a remote region of British Columbia’s Skeena River system. The Fly Boys team attempts to catch Steelhead eating dead-drift dry flies.”

Make Music with Your Mind

BBC Report: “Thinking up beautiful music.”

Musicians may soon be able to play instruments using just the power of the mind. Researchers at Goldsmiths, University of London have developed technology to translate thoughts into musical notes.

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Rolling Confusion

Most mashups are mess ups, uninspiring overlays of songs whose combination adds nothing but a bit of sonic amusement. Sometimes, tho, these musical Chimeras form a melodic and lyrical whole, which is equal or even greater than its parts. When that happens, the mashup is often by one of the forms foremost practitioners, Mark Vidler, aka, Go Home Productions.

His new Spliced Kripsies collection has several gems. Best is “Rolling Confusion” which mashes The Rolling Stones (‘Street Fighting Man,’ ‘Gimme Shelter,’ and drums from ‘Slave’) with The Temptations ‘Ball Of Confusion’ (3:47 mp3):

GHP gives away hi-fi (320kbps) mp3s, but doesn’t keep them up long, so grab ’em while they’re hot. He also mashes video to match the audio, and has production notes for each. About the audio:

Absolutely love Beggars Banquet and that whole era of the Stones. Had to slow the tempo of the Temps vocal to fit but I think I got away with it. Quite like the way that the track slips between half and double time…you can’t dance to it. The drum break is pilfered from ‘Slave’ off the ‘Tattoo You’ album.

This video was the last to get completed. There’s no promo for the Stones track, so I had ‘improvise’ so the footage is actually from ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ and ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ performed as part of their Circus spot from 1968. Similar problem with Ball Of Confusion but there was enough ‘vocal’ footage to fill a couple of verses. Amazing how relevant the lyrics of BOC are today. Frighteningly relevant.

Little Fluffy Clouds

The Orb often makes ambient-electro music out of spoken-voice snippets using of the rhythm of the speech. Their best-known spoke-sampled-song (details on clips used below) is from 1991, off The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, “Little Fluffy Clouds:”

In 2007 Alan Parker: Urban Warrior (comedian Simon Munnery) parodied the song on BBC Radio 1 announcer Annie Nightingale‘s compilation Y4K— The Orb & Alan Parker, “Grey Clouds” (2:30 mp3):

Nicks UnNixed

The internet can still surprise. Years ago we grew tired of Stevie Nicks diaphanous-ness. But lo+behold long comes a backstage video catching in the spontaneous act of…… no, not throwing a tantrum, nor snorting controlled substances with underage hermaphrodites, but rather: “Stevie is singing Love in Store and then Wild Heart in her dressing room while Robin is putting on Stevie’s make up and Lori sings back up.” Reminding us all what a lovely voice she has, “Stevie Nicks Wild Heart- extended:’

Here’s just the end of same vid, but clearer:

Ruben’s Tube

Soundwaves on fire, now if they could just turn it into a sound editor; a classic physics experiment, the “Ruben’s Tube:”

PostSecret

“PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.”

Frank Warren came up the concept, catalogs the cards, and created a community.

Frank Warren has been on NPR’s WE-SAT and ATC. And PostSecret has spawned a swarm of of books and flock of videos. These animated PostSecret cards accompany Donora‘s song “Shhh” in the film “PostSecret – A Valentine Video:”

Bow Down, Mister

Lord help (forgive?) me, I love this old Boy George tune; and lo & behold, I now find its boolywood-meets-baptist visuals housed on the internet. Originally released 1990 under Boy’s alter-band name, Jesus Loves You with the short vers of “Bow Down, Mister:”