Глюк’oZa has made some excellent animations to go with their high quality music, and I just thought I would share a few more of them with you today. I appreciate the Machinema 3D modeling they do for a bunch of them, while on others they use western animation styles, and still others are done Anime fashion. The fact I enjoy the hell out of her music doesn’t hurt any either.
OK, this one is just downright silly, but has the same cunning as Bernstein’s Peter And The Wolf. Tricking children into becoming music lovers by explaining to them what is going on, or by making sure they get to attend a presentation by a live orchestra. I don’t care which method is used, I enjoy the fact that Wallice and Gromit’s Musical Marvels is helping more and more young people understand and learn to appreciate music.
Truly amazing live music; David Byrne (Talking Heads) and Annie Clark (St. Vincent) did this concert just a few months ago at Strathmore Hall in Rockville, Md, and NPR was there to capture it. Most of this show was from their 2012 album Love This Giant, but they each did a track or two from their previous groups, like Talking Head’s Burning Down the House and St. Vincent’s Marrow.
This is a single instance of the huge collection of concerts and music from around the world that NPR makes available. Today alone, NPR will be doing Nick Cave and the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s live from SXSW. Please tell me you are checking these out when they happen, and supporting NPR with whatever resources you have available, so they continue this wonderful work.
Глюк’oZa is a band that knows how to blend excellent animation with quality music, and they have built a sci-fi storyline much as Gorillaz have. The name of the band is also the stage name of the lead singer/songwriter/dancer/actress, Gluk’oza’s real name being Natalia Ilinichna Ionova. The stage name means Glucose, or Sugar in Russian, and I pretty much like all her music. These are just a few of her videos, you can see lots more on her web site, and I will no doubt post more of them here another time.
Science Friday will be covering the impact of Sequestration on science and research tomorrow, but they also have a very fun guest: MC Frontalot. He’s not the only Nerdcore artist, but he is my favorite, and he just came out with a new CD, his 5th. Nerdcore is hip-hop for nerds, about computers, video games, science, and being geeky, so he should fit right in with the Sci-Friday crowd. You can listen to it on your local NPR radio station, download the podcast, or stream it live, check this page for the links to listen, or get the app. Or for the full geek effect, log in to Sci-Friday in Second Life and enjoy it in VR. Don’t forget to visit the MC Frontalot web site for the latest updates and tunes.
A couple of tunes in Russian I like, that also have tasty video’s with them. The first is ANA BASTON with her song Li-Lu, the second is Pavlova’s song Часы. I don’t have a clue what they are about, but I like the music and visuals both, and Pavlova is definitely Clockpunk.