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http://playingforchange.com - From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This is the third video from the documentary and a follow up to the classic “Stand By Me” and the incredible “Don’t Worry.” Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.

Tom Waits guitarrist solo with Carlos del Puerto on double bass and our man Ed Larez

Great track by south africa´s dj cleo

With the amazing voice of Venezuela’s Aerea Negrot.

“The Mockumentary” seeks to illuminate the conspiracy theories surrounding the musical identity of Mocky.

Behind the scenes of legendary producer Rick Rubin’s latest project with famous funnyman Ray Stevens.

A music sequencer that uses Siftables as the interface. There are three “voices” - lead, bass and drums. Each voice has four variations, accessible via the four sides of the siftable. You can also apply reverb, filter, volume and tempo changes. Pretty cool. You can watch a short Ted Talk where designer David Merill talks about the idea in more detail and demo’s a few other applications. (via audiolemon)

Herbie shows off while Quincy Jones looks on. Taken from VHS recording of 1984 documentary “I love Quincy”. Via Mary Zander

Instead of Hardcore-Tecno-Party in Berghain, that thursday was The Capital Dance Orchestra with David Canisius along the Puppetmastaz, must have been a very nice party.

Here is the complete documentary to download: Red Mondays and Gemstone Jalapeños: The Synesthetic World

(via nerdcore)

At the World Science Festival in June here in New York, specialists – including musical specialist Bobby McFerrin – gathered to ask what in music we humans hear universally, versus what is culturally specific.

Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and our emotions.

You can watch a series of five video highlights, but the one above is perhaps the most striking.Notes and Neurons videos

Via Createdigitalmusic

via masala

“Locative art,” the idea that somehow location will feed into music and visuals, has eluded culture. We have the technology, in the form of sophisticated databases of location information and highly accurate, publicly-available GPS satellites. But it’s one of those solutions in search of a problem, and begs the question, why?

That is, until you unleash a nearly 6-liter V8 Ford LTD Crown Victoria on the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats, and your driving gets translated to music. Now it makes sense. And sweeping through the salty dust in one of America’s greatest action-car-chase cars of all time, manipulating music on a Max/MSP software patch, all becomes right with the world. (That’s how it is in my head, anyway.)

The planet is your control surface. (via CDM)

Bomba Estereo from Bogota, Colombia…….Party big style!!!!!!!

About Bigmouse is based on the Russian poem by Ludmila Ulanova. Constantin Arefyev and Agmurad Amanov created and animated these idyllic scenes and cheerful Russian music.

This is a teaser for a new multi-input looping system from Devine Machine, Cycler. Arash Khalatbari and Wise Washington performing using CYCLER, the new upcoming looping and remix system from Devine Machine. Flutes, jaw harp and percussion are recorded and mixed live. Devine has several more Cycler looping demos available at their blog. No specs or release date have been announced for Cycler. (via rekkerd)

Cylinder by Andy Huntington and Drew Allan is an elegant series of data sculpture based on sound analysis. A mapping of the frequency and time domains produces cylindrical forms representing the spatial characteristics of the sound input. Physical versions of the digital 3D models are then 3D printed using stereolithography.

The idea of mapping sound to space is not unfamiliar. The Cylinder project shows similar strategies to those used in the exhibition Frozen, which showed sound represented as a continous space rather than as a one-dimensional signal. However, Cylinder is from 2003, predating Frozen and making it somewhat of an early example of the data sculpture genre.

Read more at generator.x

Maria 1 – Cristina Bacelar (guitar and vocal) Maria 2 – Fátima Santos (accordion) Maria 3 – Sara Barbosa (contrabass) Manolo – Zagalo (percussion) website / myspace

The Magical prepeared piano of Hauschka

Madrid based label Vampisoul is reissuing long lost music from Latin America and beyond. Their first release was a compilation of Peruvian Underground music from the 60s and 70s, including Peruvian funk, garage, psychedelia and chicha. Chicha is often described as “Peruvian cumbia” but it is more like a bastard genre of tradition crossed with modernity. It originated in the Amazonas region of Northern Perú around the time of the oil boom in the 60s. The music took influences from the local folklore and mixed it with rock ‘n’ roll or surf rock, tropical rhythms such as colombian cumbia and Andean scales and melodies. It was primarily, however, a music to dance to and a music of the people. Barbés has some fantastic background information for all their releases and they do a much better job than either wikipedia or myself at explaining the history of the music. (via rhythmnroots.blogspot.com)

Pau, a vocalist/producer from Mexico City whose amigos comprise a music/visual arts collective, has been having a remix contest for the original, which is a pretty straightforward disco track about how buzzards are gonna outlive us all because they like to kill and you know, have feathery backs and shit. (Via Generation Bass and thefader)

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via masalacism.blogspot.com

Township house electronica straight from South Africa.

Cadenza boss Luciano revealed his Æther live performance project at Spain’s Monegros festival on 18th July, a project that is being billed as a “synchronization of sound and colour”. In this video you can see Luciano conducting his laptop symphony from the centre, with his back to the audience like a classical music conductor would guide an orchestra. Cadenza label mates Reboot, Mirko Loco, Lee Van Dowski, and Digitaline throw in sounds and percussion from their laptops using Ableton Live, whilst Luciano controls the incoming sounds via a touchscreen computer and what appears to be a Native Instruments Maschine, ultimately deciding what gets through.

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. Which side of the ideas war are you on?

View the entire movie here : http://www.nfb.ca/film/rip-remix-mani…

Something wicked, slow and heavy from Frankie Paul on the Hitbound label.via queenmajesty.blogspot.com

First 2 tracks from RivaStarr´s new album IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, MAKE LEMONADE out after the summer on MADE TO PLAY. Video samples from black cat white cat.

Animation by Ryan Larkin