A British production house called Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratories created this fantastic video of a scientific experiment in which disembodied heads are used as musical instruments.
The story of how my friend Clive and I were duped into buying counterfeit tickets to an AC/DC show.
Billed as “An X-Rated Musical Fantasy” and produced by the same man who brought the world Flesh Gordon, this is one of the more artistically ambitious porn spoofs you’ll ever see.
This awesome clip shows a barely pubescent Jimmy Page playing skiffle on a British TV show in the late ’50s.
A huge breakthrough: The German company Celemony has developed technology that can analyze polyphonic audio and break it up into individual notes, which can then be pitch-shifted, time-shifted, and otherwise mucked with.
Santeri Ojala’s brilliant video mashups are alternate-universe versions of rock-god cliches.
My iPhone wallpaper is a scan of a gorgeous music score by the avant garde American composer George Crumb.
The gang at Collected Ventures has some excellent fun with “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger.
Check out this awesome Quicktime VR image that was taken during a recent Pixies show at a medium-size club in Prague.
The British musician Stuart Wyatt is a classically trained electric violinist who plays solo live shows using foot-controlled loop samplers, a technique known as live looping.
Raspy-voiced troubadour Tom Waits is famous for his refusal to do commercial voiceovers—and for his willingness to sue advertisers who use Waits soundalikes. But back in 1981, he did the voiceover for a Purina dog food commercial. Here it is.
The latest episode of Yacht Rock, the near-perfect Channel 101 series, was put online a few hours ago, and it’s a classic.
Released this past Tuesday and currently in heavy rotation here in my apartment: Hello Waveforms, a mostly instrumental solo record from the British producer and synth genius William Orbit.
The American avant-garde composer George Crumb often uses highly unconventional, and graphically gorgeous, techniques to represent his music on the page. I haven’t heard much of Crumb’s music, but the scores themselves are sublime works of art.
I dropped my iPod onto the subway tracks. Here’s the story of how I got it back.
The new video from the goofy power-pop band The Presidents of the United States of America was shot entirely using an array of Sony Ericsson cellphones.
A hilarious bit of home-video footage that became a phenomenon on the underground video-trading circuit in the late ’90s.
The iMP AMP is a stereo vacuum-tube power amplifier “intended for studio use, or with small sound sources such as iPods, mini-disc/cd players and laptops to power passive monitors.” It’s also a gorgeous object.
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