OMFGDOGS
An all-time classic of the "single-page website with a GIF set to background music" genre. ("Hampsterdance-core"?) The song still periodically gets stuck in my head sometimes...
Eyes of a Wallflower
A very pretty Joe Hisaishi-esque piano composition just sitting here on Youtube with under 20,000 views at time of posting. Check it out and maybe check out the other videos on this talented composer's channel as well!
My Favorite 15 Second Songs - A Bots of New York Tribute
There's this social media account, Bots of New York, which posts entertainingly nonsensical computer-generated parodies of Humans of New York posts. One of them (facebook link) was this gem:
Seattle-based musical artist "Thee Effluvium" then used a computer text generator to generate the rest of the track list for the double album and recorded the titular 15-second songs themselves. The sound is very 'experimental,' but it's also fantastic and amazing and a triumph. Please listen.
Special shoutout to the tracks Tom is Bigger then Me, Cranky Old Lady Sees The Sun, and A Wave Loudly Crashing Against A Long Shoreline Slips on a Banana Peel.
“I’m a sound designer for the biggest names in the experimental industrial folk scene. Honestly I hate that title because it does a huge disservice to the depths of my artistry. I mostly specialize in foley, field recordings, and really short songs. Next month I’m finally releasing my first solo record called ‘My Favorite 15-Second Songs.’ I’m especially excited about disc two, which features ‘Squished An Adorable Hovercraft’, ‘Stepped On An Antenna’, ‘Tackled An Insect With A Mallet’, ‘Turning Lead Pencils Into Wires With A Melon Baller’, ‘Demonstrating The Futility Of The Ampersand’, and ‘Dropping A Brilliant Astronomer Onto A Giant’s Stomping Ground (Aftermath)’.”
Seattle-based musical artist "Thee Effluvium" then used a computer text generator to generate the rest of the track list for the double album and recorded the titular 15-second songs themselves. The sound is very 'experimental,' but it's also fantastic and amazing and a triumph. Please listen.
Special shoutout to the tracks Tom is Bigger then Me, Cranky Old Lady Sees The Sun, and A Wave Loudly Crashing Against A Long Shoreline Slips on a Banana Peel.
Jurassic Park - Fingertips Suite (They Might Be Giants TMBG)
They Might Be Giants have this series of very short song snippets on their album Apollo 18. This person has gone through and paired up each short snippet with a clip from Jurassic Park. I don't know why they chose to do this specific thing, but some of their pairing choices are quite clever!
See also: "I Left My Body" by They Might Be Giants
See also: "I Left My Body" by They Might Be Giants
打首獄門同好会「Shake it up ’n’ go 〜シャキッと！コーンのうた〜」
A Japanese commercial for a brand of crispy canned corn, with rock music. Surprisingly catchy. Everybody come to the kitchen and shake it up 'n' go!!
The band responsible for this, Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai, has other good videos of similar caliber on their channel as well; this one about not wanting to get out of bed when it's cold is also very good.
The band responsible for this, Uchikubi Gokumon Doukoukai, has other good videos of similar caliber on their channel as well; this one about not wanting to get out of bed when it's cold is also very good.
fredhammer / limp wicket
An incredible video for Neil Cicierega's Limp Bizkit/Peter Gabriel/Star Wars mashup from his album Mouth Dreams. The level of care and detail put into this video is excellent, with lots of great subtle touches. The creator has a couple other 'mouth' videos on their channel as well which are also worth checking out.
Elton John Lennon - And Your Song Can Sing
Steve Cruickshank does some really interesting music projects on his YouTube channel. This one is part of a series he did mashing up various Elton John songs with John Lennon / Beatles songs, I assume just based on the fact they both have "John" in the name? I think this is my favorite one, it's Your Song/And Your Bird Can Sing.
His channel is more well-known for making "negative harmony" covers of songs which flip the harmony "upside down"; I think his negative harmony cover of "Don't Speak" by No Doubt is probably my favorite of those.
His channel is more well-known for making "negative harmony" covers of songs which flip the harmony "upside down"; I think his negative harmony cover of "Don't Speak" by No Doubt is probably my favorite of those.
"I Left My Body" by They Might Be Giants
(Epilepsy warning around 2:09!)
An incredibly high-effort, 2d-frame-by-frame-animated video for the song I Left My Body by They Might Be Giants, created by "Flim Flam Films". It has a long intro mashing up several other songs. The build-up into the "drop" when the main song actually starts causes me to experience momentary transcendence.
See also: Jurassic Park - Fingertips Suite (They Might Be Giants TMBG)
An incredibly high-effort, 2d-frame-by-frame-animated video for the song I Left My Body by They Might Be Giants, created by "Flim Flam Films". It has a long intro mashing up several other songs. The build-up into the "drop" when the main song actually starts causes me to experience momentary transcendence.
See also: Jurassic Park - Fingertips Suite (They Might Be Giants TMBG)
Like KoB | 7 tone Equal temperament 7-tET 7EDO
A jazz song composed with 7 tones to the octave, rather than the usual 12. It has a surprisingly mellow feel — the harmony is dissonant in a way our ears aren't used to, but it works well in a jazz context.
I definitely recommend checking out 5 hideya's other videos as well, especially this one where they write short snippets dividing the octave into every number from 1 to 11 notes.
I definitely recommend checking out 5 hideya's other videos as well, especially this one where they write short snippets dividing the octave into every number from 1 to 11 notes.
I Was On The Moon
A really interesting animation of the song "I Was On The Moon" by Owen Plant, showing the notes of each part as they move through harmonic space, illustrated on a lattice diagram.