Rapping about video games is one thing. Rapping about music/beatmatching video games takes this to a whole new level.
Impossible Geometry
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I Wrote a Song Using Only Hate Comments
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Some people fight their haters. Some people ignore their haters. Madilyn Bailey goes one step further and uses hate comments as the lyrics to a song.
Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
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Yaz writes, by way of partial explanation:
You could fit almost the entire history of videogames into the time span covered by the silent film era, yet we consider it a mature medium, rather than one just breaking out of its infancy. Like silent movies, classic games are often incomplete, damaged, or technically limited, but have a beauty all their own. In this spirit, indie game developer Joe Blair and I built Metropoloid, a remix of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis which replaces its famously lost score with that of its contemporaries from the early days of games.
I’ve watched Metropolis a number of times over the decades, in a variety of the stages of its recovery, and I love it. I’ve watched it with a pre-recorded but believed-to-be-faithful soundtrack and I’ve watched it with several diolive accompaniment. But this is the first time I’ve watched it to the soundtrack of classic (and contemporary-retro) videogames: the Metroid, Castlevania, Zelda, Mega Man and Final Fantasy series, Doom, Kirby, F-Zero and more. If you’ve got a couple of hours to spare and a love of classic film and classic videogames, then you’re in the slim minority that will get the most out of this fabulous labour of love (which, at the time of my writing, has enjoyed only a few hundred views and a mere 26 “thumbs up”: it certainly deserves a wider audience!).
Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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In the second half of this video (directly linked), Imogen Heap demonstrates how she uses her Mi.Mu gloves as an expressive music manipulation tool, and then goes on to sing the most haunting rendition of Hide and Seek you’ll ever hear. The entire video’s great – in the first half she brings Guy Sigsworth up to sing Guitar Song, finally answering after 17 years the question “What if Frou Frou got back together?” – but if you only listen to the second half of this video then it’ll still improve your life.
@AndyReganCDF: I nudged you about this last week but you were at Glastonbury and I don’t know if you picked it up after you got back, so here’s a renudge.
Note #14062
Jon Snow oh oh EXTENDED REMIX oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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This epic video (which contains spoilers for Game of Thrones through the third episode of season eight The Long Night). If you’re somehow not up-to-date, you can always watch the earlier iteration, which only contains spoilers through The Spoils of War, the fourth episode of the seventh series.
And now my bedsheets smell like Jon Snow.
Non Stop Hammer Ti.me
You know how sometimes I make a thing and, in hindsight, it doesn’t make much sense? And at best, all it can be said to do is to make the Internet more fun and weird?
I give you: NonStopHammerTi.me.
Things that make it awesome:
- Well, the obvious.
- Vanilla Javascript.
- CSS animations timed to every-other-beat.
- Using an SVG
stroke-dasharrayas a progress bar. - Progressively-enhanced; in the worst case you just get to download the audio.
- PWA-enhanced; install it to your mobile!
- Open source!
- Decentralised (available via the peer-web at dat://nonstophammerti.me/ / dat://0a4a8a..00/)
- Accessible to screen readers, keyboard navigators, partially-sighted users, just about anybody.
- Compatible with digital signage at my workplace…
That is all.
Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
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“aisatsana” is the final track off Aphex Twin’s 2012 release, Syro. A departure from the synthy dance tunes which make up the majority of Aphex Twin’s catalog, aisatsana is quiet, calm, and perfect for listening to during activities which require concentration. But with a measly running time just shy of five and a half minutes, the track isn’t nearly long enough to sustain a session of reading or coding. Playing the track on repeat isn’t satisfactory; exact repetition becomes monotonous quickly. I wished there were an hour-long version of the track, or even better, some system which could generate an endless performance of the track without repetition. Since I build software for a living, I decided to try creating such a system.
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If you’d like to try the experience before you read this whole article (although you should read the article), listen here. I’m sure you’ll agree that it sounds like “more aistsana” without being aistsana.
Spoiler: the secret is Markov chains of musical phrases.
Agenda
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The Pet Shop Boys have just released a new four-song EP, Agenda, and it’s flipping brilliant.
Honey, I autotuned the cat
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Autotuned the cat because he won’t shut up in the mornings. I don’t know how this helps but I did it anyway.
Bassoontracker – Release 0.3.0 is out!
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During the past months I have been tinkering along on Bassoontracker – My browser based Retro Music Tool.
Today, it’s ready for a next big release: Version 0.3.0 is out!…
This is just about the coolest thing in the world. I played with Scream Tracker and a handful of other trackers in the 1990s and I loved the scene, even though I was never talented enough to participate as more than an observer and fan. This is a reimagining of a classic tracker… written entirely in Javascript! So cool!
You’ve been… Gayageumstruck!
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AC/DC’s Thunderstruck played on a Gayageum, a traditional Korean stringed instrument. You might also enjoy it performed on a pair of cellos. Or, as I shared earlier this year, sung by a 21-month-old.
Jered Threatin
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“We would have been overjoyed if that many people actually turned up.”
Remember Threatin? Earlier this year, this guy and his band played a European tour to… basically nobody. He’d faked having a successful US career, record deal, etc. and persuaded a handful of session musicians to tour with him to venues to whom he’d promised that a significant number of tickets had sold in advance. And it was all a lie.
The Beeb managed to secure an interview with him and he’s now claiming that this was his plan all along. I don’t buy it, but maybe. In any case, it’s an interesting glimpse behind the curtain and into the mind of this strange, strange man.
The Hu – Yuve Yuve Yu
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Mongolian folk rock. Until right now, you probably didn’t even know that this was missing from your life.
Be sure to switch on the translated subtitles (assuming you don’t speak Mongolian): they’re not perfect, but they’re good enough to get the idea. Awesome.
Toto – Africa (Chicken cover)
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One man – who appears to be afraid of chickens – plays Toto’s Africa on a rubber chicken, with backup from a real chicken. Congratulations: if you watched this, you just won the whole damn Internet.