Just Before Dark

The Fab Faux is made up of 5 journeymen musicians who live to recreate live the things that the Beatles created in studio with remixing and overdubs.  You may recognize some of them from their other gigs (Jimmy Vivino is the Music Director for Conan O’Brien and Will Lee plays bass on The Late Show with David Letterman).  This video is of them at the Sirius studios faithfully covering the Side 2 suite of the Abbey Road album.  It’s 18 minutes long, but surprisingly mesmerizing, and worthy of that break you know you need from work right about now.  The Fab Faux are: Will Lee, Rich Pagano, Frank Agnello, Jimmy Vivino, and Jack Petruzzelli.

I came across this video of a test shoot that Adam Guzman and Julie Tsao did of the visuals for Nosaj Thing’s live performance.  Rather than just being a backdrop, the visuals act as the sole stage lighting for the show.  The clip shows various samples, all synchronized to the music.  Guzman says of the pieces:

As the set progresses, the imagery becomes less abstract and focused less on light. Patterns begin to form and space begins to open as if the two dimensions exploded into a third. The relationship the graphics create with the performer is interesting. As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.

Nosaj isn’t playing any East Coast gigs until November, but he’s in the midst of a swing through California right now if you’re out there.  You can get tour dates on his site.

(via Kitsune Noir)

This video will make you nostalgic for a simpler time when technology was used for such useful things as making remixes of Queen tracks with Oscilloscopes and what appears to be the bastard stepchild of a dot-matrix printer.  I’m also fairly convinced this is the last sound we’ll hear before the machines rise up and take over civilization.

Bobby McFerrin at the 2009 World Science Festival demonstrating neural programming and the pentatonic scale.  It’s far more interesting than I’m making it sound.  (via Marley)