Unrefined "Musician" Gains a Global Audience 325
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "An unskilled musician performed a catchy pop instrumental for more than one million YouTube users even though he can't play a lick of drums or piano. The 22-year-old Norwegian's tool was stop-motion video, WSJ.com reports. From the article: 'To make "Amateur," Mr. Gjertsen recorded each analog beat and note one by one on video. He transferred the sounds from each video clip into audio files, which he could rearrange with the Fruity Loops sound-editing program — the same software he's used to create his all-digital music in the past. After organizing the sound files into the right order, Mr. Gjertsen reconstructed the pattern with the original video files. In the final product, he insists, nothing about his performance was digitally enhanced. "You have the original sounds from the video," he says.'"
Hair (Score:5, Funny)
Man I Dig That Crazy Beat! (Score:5, Funny)
umm (Score:5, Funny)
Now this is cutting edge stuff here - simply by dictating what pitch, how long, and when notes should be played, he was able to "perform" an entire song!!
Can you imagine the potential of this? Why, you could be an entire orchestra by yourself! In fact, you could even perform this kind of trick LIVE - simply substitute musicians skilled in their instruments for the samples, and in order to "control" them, you could provide them with the musical instructions somehow on paper. Of course you'd have to implement some kind of global timer to keep them all together, but it seems very doable!
Redundant (Score:5, Funny)
Bring on the remixes ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Moo (Score:4, Funny)
if that does not work, grab a live cd and burn it on yout back up machine (you had one right?) boot up your machine from the live cd then mount the hdd and modify grub to load the old kernel. its as simple as that.
Re:"Unskilled"? (Score:4, Funny)
It's cymbal, not symbol. I'm not a musician and even I know that.
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Re:"Unskilled"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Unskilled"? C'mon... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:3, Funny)
Many words to say few things... (Score:4, Funny)
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