Note: Check your volume, donkeysong. This is a video posted by Ashley Kirk of donkey Nelson adding some vocals to her harmonica playing. You might argue that Nelson is not actually singing, but you could also argue that Ashley isn’t actually playing the harmonica. Regardless, Ashley posted the video as
This is a video of musician/stare king Seth Everman performing Nirvana’s classic ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ on his synth in a variety of unique musical stylings. He does a great job like he always does (God, people with talent!), but that’s not what I came to talk about. I came
This is ‘The Detachable Rag’, a video of musician Jordan Ruddess performing a ragtime song on a Pocket Piano (a modular 88-key electronic keyboard designed for ease of transport) as his friend Maddi removes octave segments of the board, leaving him with fewer and fewer keys on which to play,
This is a video of South Korea’s Maytree a cappella quintet performing the Star Wars theme (previously: Windows and iPhone sound effects and movie production company intros). They do a wonderful job, although the way they move it almost looks like they recorded the sounds slower and then sped it
This is a video of Ukrainian duet the B&B Project performing the music and sound effects from Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 on bandura and accordion, with the guy on accordion performing the music, and the girl on bandura performing the sound effects. They do a great job. As great
Because the internet, like an old fashioned butter churn filled with who-knows-what, never stops producing something to melt into the pockets of your Eggo, this is a video of a man recreating the intro to Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ by bouncing a ping pong ball off the strings of a
This is a video of Tom BetGeorge (of all those insanely choreographed Halloween and Christmas light displays) performing a little of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor on a flaming pipe organ at the 2021 Transworld Halloween and Attractions Show in St. Louis. Man, I think I need one
These are a couple videos of the experimental musicians of Electronicos Fantasticos using a barcode reader attached to a skateboard to read giant barcodes on the ground and digitally replicate some record scratching. You may recall the beginning of this project from this previous post, and now it’s reached its