Music & Instruments News
News: Sole Keyboard Conducts Orchestral Sculpture
According to Wikipedia, "Sympathetic Resonance is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a formerly passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness."
EXPERIBASS: Violin+Viola+Cello+Double Bass
Diego Stocco is back (previously, the incredible Music From a Tree). This time Stocco has created the experibass:
News: World Renown Beatbox-Flute Subway Busker
Beatboxing flutist, Greg Pattillo, burst onto the YouTube scene circa 2007, racking up over 20 million views for his performance videos. Patillo has garnered world recognition for his skills, as well as attention from the New York Times:
News: Play Chopsticks on the Subway Stairs
Swedish advertising company, Rolighetsteorin, recently created musical stairs reminiscent of Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia's beloved FAO Schwartz piano scene in Big. The campaign is for Volkswagen, though I'm fuzzy on the connection between the two.
News: The Tree as Stradivarius
According to Wikipedia, to be called "the Stradivari" of any field is to be deemed the finest there is...
News: OMG Beatbox World Champion is a...White Canadian Girl(!)
Well, the online beatbox world champion. Still, pretty incredible, considering the title winner is a cute 17-year-old girl hailing from Canada.
News: Ukulele Cover of Britney Spears "Toxic" Takes YouTube by Storm
Ok, so you clicked through and there's no Britney Spears. I would have used an image of the mysterious Molly Lewis, aka, sweetafton23, but you can barely see her face in her ukulele cover of Britneys Spears' pop classic, "Toxic".
News: 13-Year-Old Guitarist Wows Guitar Pros... and Yoko Ono
South Korea's child prodigy, Sungha Jung, uploads approximately one video a week to his YouTube channel, racking up millions of views and over 120,000 subscribers. Jung is an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist, and his skill level is well beyond his years. The guitar appears to be practically the same size as Jung, even though it is custom made to fit his body size.
News: Play Zelda's theme on an invisible musical instrument
Take the best RPG of all time. Combine with the only instrument with invisible strings. And you have pure elf-worthy magic!
News: Make music with candy
This creation is an intuitive engineering masterpiece. In the video titled "I Eat Beats", creator Kyle McDonald can literally consume his music. Halfway through the video, this wild demonstration really heats up. He loops together three different people's improvisations to create an addictive and dynamic song.
News: Make Zelda's ocarina out of a carrot
From Japan hails this magical man and his homemade ocarina. First, this loveable vegetable musician plays "Song of Time", from the video game Zelda: Ocarina in Time, with perfect pitch and clarity. The catch, of course, is rather than a gourd pan flute or even a Nintendo, Mr. Heita uses a carrot. From Japan hails this magical man and his homemade ocarina. First, this loveable vegetable musician plays "Song of Time", from the video game Zelda: Ocarina in Time, with perfect pitch and clarity. T...
News: Human Beatbox like Doug E Fresh
There are very few legends in this world. When it comes to beatboxing, Doug E Fresh is the O.G. legend. Below is an old school video of Fresh with Slick Rick performing 'La Di Da Di' in New York. At 3:52 Fresh goes off the hook, so be patient. There are very few legends in this world.