New kid on the block
Ian Ring is an up and coming musician from Ballintemple in Cork and has just launched his first single “Lose Control”. The track is cracking and the video his getting lots of hits on You [...]
MUSIC, MATHS & ART
Here Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites by using the maths behind string length and pitch. Like all good things it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes [...]
1, 2, 3 Dismount
“Bad Lipreading” is becoming very popular – over 1 million people watched this video of Michael Bublé in the Killarney Market singing his song “I Haven’t met you yet”. That’s right, not a supermarket in [...]
I’m Your Man
If you like Leonard Cohen and you like a good story I’m sure you’ll enjoy this. Cohen gave an acceptance speech at The Prince of Asturias awards ceremony hosted by the King and Queen of [...]
Sing it to the Marines
One of my favorite expressions is “You can sing it to the marines” I think it means “something is true, in fact very true”. Then, completely unrelated, I came across this video “The Helsinki Complaints [...]
What’s he up to now?
I often wondered what Gary Numan was up to. He pops up here in a very unusual video, singing with New York experimentalist band The Battles. And what is he singing about? – yeah, Machines. [...]
The Mamas & Papas
If you’re a History Teacher – listen up. The Mamas & Papas were a Canadian/American group of the 1960s. The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968. They released five albums and had lots of [...]
Music from a Tree
Sound art or sound installations are not my thing so I was glad to come across Diego Stocco. He’s a sound artist that I could listen to the car. He’s best known for writing music [...]
Ceol agus Craic
This video wil have your feet tapping and put a big smile on your face. It was recorded at the launch of The Lee Sessions in August at The Bodega on the Coal Quay [...]
Quantum Mechanics Autotuned
There was a bit of hoo haa recently about auto tuning some of the ‘artists’ on the X-Factor. Shock, horror, surprise, surprise. Here is a great example of disguising the off-key inaccuracies and mistakes of [...]
