Music Videos
Poll: Best Name for Cover Song & Portrait YouTube Mashup?
We’re constantly thinking of (often bad) ideas for new songs, YouTube channels, Facebook Apps, etc. Here’s a silly, hypothetical one — a YouTube channel with a cover song and pop star portrait mashup. For example, imagine simultaneously seeing a portrait of Usher being painted from scratch and hearing a cover of his hit song. The [...]
Crowdsourced Choir + Phat Video Editing
Eric Whitacre, composer, conductor, lecturer, and model, invited anyone who felt like it to perform one of his choral pieces…via YouTube. 2,000 plus singers from across the globe later, and the Virtual Choir 2.0 video is almost done. Below is a video of Eric at TED presenting a teaser of the project. As good as [...]
Crowdsourcing Music Video Production with Fans
As many of you know, I love the intersection of creative music production, funky technology, and engaging promotional campaigns. I also happen to like quirky music videos. Mashable totally hit paydirt with all the above, by gathering a collection of crowdsourced music videos. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Check out this video, which is still being produced, [...]
Craftsman Music: More Cool & Less Tool
Mixing video from different takes to create a music mozaic is all the rage on YouTube nowadays… Pamplamoose, David Choi, Jake Bruene, and a hundred other talented YouTube-ers. This video was kinda unique, since no actual instruments were involved…just tools. Kudos to Craftsman for creating something that’s actually…more “cool”, and less “tool”:
Play an Interactive Piano on YouTube
At any time, someone, somewhere, is doing something cool on YouTube. I’m loving this interactive piano video…even if playing something as simply as Chopsticks is impossible: Enjoy… (via Mashable)
New Song: “Just Say Yes” (Snow Patrol cover) & Music Video Experiment
My acoustic cover of the new single by Snow Patrol, “Just Say Yes“, went on sale yesterday (two weeks before Snow Patrol’s version will be in stores on Oct 30th). How’s that for an unsigned band moving faster than a record label? Digg It! Snow Patrol’s “Just Say Yes”, the single from their new album [...]
How Uncle Sam Can Help You Shoot Your Music Video for Free
Celebrate the upcoming 4th of July holiday by using a US law to shoot a music video for free. That’s what the band The Get Out Clause did (except it was in the UK). From the Future of Media: “The band set up their music equipment, from microphones to drum kit, in eighty different locations, including buses [...]
The Ultimate Funky YouTube Loop Mashup Music Video
This guy, Kutiman, took loop groove creation to the next level by mashing up a bunch of YouTube clips together. Funky, funky, funky. It’s kind of like…consumer generated media-generated media. I wonder where this all falls with regards to licensing, content ownership, clearance, permission…oh, never mind. Awesome stuff. (via Mashable)
