OK Go - Needing/Getting

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The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. This is just awesome! Four month of working. No real music but...

OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car.

The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they'd play the right note no matter where they were struck.

Director: Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr. Director of Photography: Yon Thomas Editor: Doug Walker Producer: Luke Ricci

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c

YEARS - Tree Record Player

A record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music. Made by Bartholomaus Traubeck

"A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently."

"It is more like a generative sound machine, using data from the wood as its source for rhythm and notation than a representational and precise sonification of the data stored in year rings." adds Bartholomaus

The Weeknd

This year Designcollector with the help of Moscow based music lover and singer Evgenia Nedosekina officially formed a new branch of a site named Musicollector (and this apart from 2 years old Designcollector Podcast). The aim is to bring new music online whenever it is famous singles or unknown EPs. We don't pretend to be a music blog or go for critics. We post what floats our boat and hopes deliver you the joy and inspiration.

To close 2011 Music year on Musicollector we selected for the review a new third album from triumphant The Weekend - "Echoes of Silence".

The Weeknd - Montreal by The_Weeknd

Stream or download The Weekend - "Echoes of Silence"

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