Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.
I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.
Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).
I got curious and had a look at some of Jarbas Agnelli's other videos were. Clever advert marketing with music here:
She has, regrettably, been one of those artists that has penetrated the subconscious through media promotion, rather than a lady I've stumbled across. Yey for her promoters, but I must admit I do like discovering musicians through other means, as it tends to feel a lot more satisfying.
Still, that fact is nothing to take away from Little Boots who has written some much more wholesome and interesting melodies and lyrics than Lady GaGa and her bloody Poker Face.
Mathematics is a difficult thing I never understood what was the missing link And by the time I calculated the correct solution The question had escaped me and so did the conclusion
So tell me everything must always equal two Or nothing else is true And I'll believe you Cos your X is equal to my Y But equations pass me by
So will you take just a little of my mind and subtract it from my soul Add a fraction of your half and you'll see it makes me whole Multiply it by the times that we've never been apart You'll see nothing can divide just a heart plus a heart
A little of my mind Take it from my soul A fraction of your half See it makes me whole And multiply the times Never be apart Cos nothing can divide a heart plus a heart
Don't know my Fibonacci or Pythagoras But the only formula I know will work for us is that When we're together in the sum of our parts It's far greater than what we added up to at the start
So tell me everything must always equal two Or nothing else is true And I'll believe you Cos your X is equal to my Y But equations pass me by
So will you take just a little of my mind and subtract it from my soul Add a fraction of your half and you'll see it makes me whole Multiply it by the times that we've never been apart You'll see nothing can divide just a heart plus a heart
A little of my mind Take it from my soul A fraction of your half See it makes me whole And multiply the times Never be apart Cos nothing can divide a heart plus a heart
A heart plus a heart
Take just a little of my mind and subtract it from my soul Add a fraction of your half and you'll see it makes me whole Multiply it by the times that we've never been apart You'll see nothing can divide just a heart plus a heart
A little of my mind Take it from my soul A fraction of your half See it makes me whole And multiply the times Never be apart Cos nothing can divide a heart plus a heart
I misguidedly, attempted to learn beatboxing last year. I failed quite soon, but I will prevail, as its nice to have something to surprise people with.
Anyhow, I am always in awe of people who can make amazingly realistic noises with their mouths and voices. Just like ventriloquists and impressionists. So here's one I recently was shared.
I am going to see this man perform tonight. For the third time in as many years. You are very jealous, I know. Time will cure your pain. For now, just listen and enjoy.
My brain-hand coordination has been awful today. Earlier on, I went to comment on Kate's Facebook status and meant to say, "It [Bat For Lashes' music] is truly fantasmo" and wound up typing "They are truly fantasmo." Because in my head, rather than the word 'music', there was a picture of eyelashes and there were obviously more than one . Then after hitting reply, I thought, "Wait... WHAT?" And then commented again saying I meant 'it is' instead of 'they are'. Then I almost commented a third time to say, "Oh but actually, the first sentence could be read as they (Bat For Lashes) are, so ignore my second comment because you probably don't realise what I'm talking about." But before I hit send, I remembered that Bat For Lashes is only Natasha Khan and there is no 'they', so just what kind of crack am I on?
Earlier on, I also said to my friend, "he's a slut" after she told me there was this skank continually hitting on her boyfriend. And she got slightly offended and I had no idea why till I realised my 'he' was actually missing a crucial 's' at the start.
And, talking to Meghan on AIM, I just, not 2 seconds ago, called Maximus "Maximum".
To console myself, I went on a search for typos that would make me look like the Grammar & Spelling Queen of the Internet.
Anyway, I'm glad Kate posted that Bat For Lashes update because it reminded me of this odd video I saw last year. I don't even known why it creeps me out but it kind of does every time I watch it - especially when those 'animals' come riding their bicycles out of nowhere, then start jumping around on their bikes and slinking back behind her. It's reminiscent of how giant robots and animatronic creatures freaked me out when I was a kid.
So after seeing PJ & Duncan (a.k.a. Ant and Dec) on that previous video Pam posted, I started thinking about all the good and bad music tha emerged from the 90s (mostly bad). I thought I'd start a little project in which we all post the songs we grew up with in the 90s. These songs aren't the songs YOU personally listened to and loved, but the ones you heard when you turned on the radio, the ones you danced to at every party, the ones you knew the lyrics to even though you despised them, and most of all, the ones that remind you of all the trauma and fun you had as a kid and teenager in that era.
I'll start off with my playlist and in the comments, list the songs that also apply to you. Then, think about the songs I did not have in mine, but that also shaped your 90s experience, and put them in your playlist!
If any of the tracks don't work, it's because Mixpod killed them and not because I didn't test my playlist before posting it. I don't know why but there are certain musicians who don't seem to want their songs used in this manner, so only remixes and live versions of their songs can be found. When someone uploads the original, it gets deleted rather quickly. Not sure if I picked any such songs...
There are two versions of 'Missing' by Everything But The Girl in my playlist because if I had to pick ONE SONG of the 90s that encapsulates the decade for me, it would be 'Missing'. The first version is one of the remixes, and the second version is the original track. I'm rather annoyed because Mixpod does not seem to have the specific Todd Terry remix of the song that I'm after, as that's the one that was the most popular at my school.
Oh and in case "Close To You" by Fun Factory did not sufficiently blow you away, here is another version of the song, complete with extra rapping. It is a fine masterpiece of a music video if I do say so myself. I mean, those sweet 90s dance moves. How will you ever pick your jaw off the floor and recover from the amazement?
HELPFUL MIXPOD TIPS
1. To create a playlist, go to Mixpod.com. You will find that hundreds of options pop up after you key in the title of a song. Which oh which will you select? Well, I have found that the songs that are NOT uploaded to Youtube load faster (they usually have a picture of a blank silver CD next to them, as opposed to the Youtube music, which has different colourful images). Of course, not all the blank silver CD tracks load equally fast so you usually have to play a few to see which loads the best. The fastest ones have loading bars that zoom to the end quite quickly. If a song seems to pause every few seconds when you play it due to the slow loading speed, it is best to pick another one (unless it just so happens that your own internet connection is extremely slow, and thus, all songs load slowly as a result).
2. Sometimes, a track doesn't have any versions with the blank silver CD icon, and all the versions are slow-loading Youtube ones. It's up to you but personally, I just wind up chucking out the song coz if it's going to take forever to load when I play the Mixpod, I get frustrated.
3. When you are customising your Mixpod, go to "Settings" and nix the autoplay, because if all our Mixpods autoplayed, our blog would be in trouble.
LOVE,
NATALIE
P.S. Wow. I actually managed to use all 5 blog categories in one post!
Was curious about Natalie's MixPod and have fallen in love with the website. Hope you enjoy these tracks that I've been listening to lately. I think they're all beautiful!
NATALIE "TV rots your brain and makes you infertile. True story."
MEGHAN "I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal."
BRYONY "Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something."
KATE "The letters after my name are BSc. (Hons)... oh yeah, 1st class baby."
PAMMY "Gosh, I don't think that I've ever been stressed out. Why would I be? I've got practically no responsibilities, my job's a breeze and I've got a KILLER rack. Good morning."
