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Kala Niketan Sarees: Radio Ads

Jake Can Do — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:16:00 +0000

A radio spot for Kala Niketan Sarees, circa 1998.

Client: Kala Niketan Sarees
Ad Agency: Cosmos, India.
CEO & Creative Director: Jitendra Sheth
Copywriter: Sunil Shibad.

How to make music with cornflakes, squeaky toys and nail clippers

Jake Can Do — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:04:00 +0000

The Spaghetti Western Orchestra are 5 Australian musicians that perform music from some of the films that made Clint Eastwood a star. Movies like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in The West were all scored by composer Ennio Morricone.

Their quirky set of instruments include asthma inhalers; rubber bands, tree branches, rubber gloves, cornflakes, squeaky toys, rubber-gloves, bicycle pumps, nail clippers and many more. Simply brilliant.

1. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

2. Once Upon A Time In The West

3. Fistful Of Dollar Medley

4. Chi Mai

5. Medley

Invisible speakers

Jake Can Do — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:57:00 +0000

One company making some big buzz at the DEMO 2009 conference is Emo Labs, which revealed their “invisible speakers” to the applause of the audience. The concept: instead of sound emerging from giant speakers, they come from thin, clear membranes that could completely redefine how you watch TV or use a computer.

The technology they’ve developed is nothing short of impressive. Dubbed “Edge Motion,” (the long form of Emo), the technology makes sound with sideways forces on an invisible membrane. This vibration creates a full range sound that, from our vantage point, isn’t distinguishable from even the regular speaker.

Here Jason Carlson, the CEO of Emo Labs, to give us a video demo. Be sure to have your audio on for the full effect:

More for audiophiles:

Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: “Almost nothing has been invented yet.” So — what’s next?

Longplayer: A thousand year long musical composition

Jake Can Do — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:05:00 +0000

Streaming Podcast:

Longplayer is a one-thousand-year-long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

Longplayer was composed by musician and computer scientist Jem Finer to be played on singing bowls, a traditional standing bell from Tibet, and can be performed by humans or machines.

Jem Finer is best known as a founding member of The Pogues but has also won awards for his innovative cutting edge musical compositions.

Among his recent works are Score for Hole in the Ground, where hidden percussive instruments are played by an underground waterfall; Landscope, which detected storms on Jupiter, and The Centre of the Universe, a spiral tower that generated music from the cosmos.

Longplayer can be heard in the lighthouse at Trinity where it has been playing since it began. It can also be heard at several other listening posts around the world, and globally via a live stream on the Internet.

Longplayer is composed for singing bowls – an ancient type of standing bell – which can be played by both humans and machines, and whose resonances can be very accurately reproduced in recorded form. It is designed to be adaptable to unforeseeable changes in its technological and social environments, and to endure in the long-term as a self-sustaining institution.

Because the piece is ultimately intended to play across several centuries a special trust has been formed to ensure that it continue without interruption, and will appoint a never ending series of caretakers to preserve the music in whatever form the future makes necessary.

In this way, the composer hopes that Longplayer will evolve as a social organism and flow organically through various mediums during the next thousand years.

Video:

Cadbury’s: Zingolo

Jake Can Do — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:45:00 +0000

Cadbury is celebrating the move to fair trade chocolate with the launch of Glass and A Half Records, an album inspired by the music of Africa. The first single, “Zingolo”, celebrates all things Ghana, its people, its rappers, its dancers, its cultural figures and, of course, its cocoa beans. The campaign follows on from the success of Gorilla, Hangar and Eyebrows at A Glass and Half Full Productions.

The initiative is aimed at emphasizing Cadbury’s 101 year-history of trading with Ghanaian cocoa farmers. Starring villagers of a Ghanian village, all proceeds from the Zingolo single at iTunes will go to charity Care, which works with the cocoa communities in Ghana.

(via The Inspiration Room)

In Bb 2.0, a collaborative music project

Jake Can Do — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.

The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

Learn more in the FAQ.

My friend, Sunil Shibad, just added the Indian element to it and put them in random order as an experiment. He is not sure if they are in Bb so if you know of any Indian instrumental or vocal piece in Bb, do drop him a mail (sshibad AT gmail.com)

Mallets

Electric Guitar

Sitar

Sarod

Toy Sax

Harmon Trumpet

Tabla

Bass Guitar

Bansuri ( Indian Flute)

Acoustic Guitar

Dhol

Carnatic Violin

Kaoss Pad/Synth

Vocals: Indian Classical

Spoken Word: English.

Piano

Synthesizer

Bulbul Tarang (Indian Banjo)

Omichord and Qchord

Don’t Inject Me (The Swine Flu Vaccine Song)

Jake Can Do — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:58:00 +0000

Don’t Inject Me (The Swine Flu Vaccine Song) by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.

A hip-hop song with a powerful message that questions the sanity of Swine Flu vaccines.

Music video

Lyrics

The swine flu’s comin’ back
like a viral attack
It’s like ’76, you gotta cover ya back
But not with a vaccine don’t give in to that
Because those medical quacks
are makin money off that
They wanna inject you, infect you with the vaccine
They say they protect but they reject your immunity
And if you protest they arrest you and they lock you down
Can’t have people like that walkin’ around
Contagious
The truth is outrageous
Don’t you know the drug companies made this flu
And if you’re thinkin’ you wanna evade this
Then you gotta say this
Don’t inject me
Don’t infect me
Don’t stick that needle in my arm and chemically wreck me
Don’t inject me
Don’t infect me
Don’t stick that needle in my veins and medically wreck me
Don’t use me
Don’t abuse me
Don’t push your medical lies and try to confuse me
Don’t trick me
Don’t you dick me
With that needle in ya hand don’t you dare try to prick me
Don’t you know the swine flu is made by man
Pharmaceutical scam
It’s all part of the Big Brother population plan
But the thing I don’t understand
is why they in Mexico City
in an unmarked military van
They don’t want you to see the remedies
you can stop influenza with vitamin D for free
Herbal medicine is all that you need
But they can’t charge a fifty dollar fee
Unless
They inject you
They infect you
They stick that needle in your arm
and chemically wreck you
They use you
They abuse you
They say they’re saving your life while they really confuse you
All you parents grab your kids
And shoot ‘em up just like guinea pigs
Inject your teens and your babies in the crib
And when they get paralyzed
That’s when you realize
There’s no way to undo what you did
The big drug companies are makin’ a killing
Collectin’ the billions and gettin’ away like a James Bond villain
cause they’re willin’ to do almost anything
Just to make money with the flu vaccine

Song and Lyrics © 2009 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

Podcast: Dangers of the Swine Flu vaccine

Podcast: How to protect yourself from Swine Flu.

Skip the flu shot. Just get Vitamin D.

The Swine Flu disaster of 1976.

And now for a cute piggy’s take on Swine Flu.

Acappella jazz rendition of Toto’s Africa

Jake Can Do — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:47:00 +0000

This fun video features a 1980s pop classic. The rock band Toto scored their biggest hit with the song “Africa” in 1982. The song is instantly recognizable. But it has been reinvented.

Perpetuum Jazzile is an a cappella jazz choir from Slovenia. It’s hard to think of something further from an ‘80s rock band. But their version of Africa may best the original. The group has amazing voices.

But the beginning of this video is really striking. Group members simulate an African thunderstorm with their hands.

It’s really something to see and hear. ( Please don’t turn up your sound – the sound of raindrops begins really soft.)

Humanthesizer turns bodies into electric instruments

Jake Can Do — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

As Creative Review reports:

To promote Calvin Harris‘s new single, Sony Music creatives Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne (who you may remember were responsible for the AC/DC ASCII Excel video last year) decided to use Bare Conductive, a technology developed by RCA Industrial Design and Engineering masters students Bibi Nelson, Becky Pilditch, Isabel Lizardi and Matt Johnson. Bare Conductive is “skin-safe, conductive ink”. When painted on the skin, it allows a current to be passed through the body without causing an electric shock.

In turn, that conductivity allows human-to-human touch to complete a circuit, generating pre-programmed sounds. All of which sounds a bit daft, as the Brits would say–especially given that the “Humanthesizer” angle here seems designed primarily as an excuse to show pretty ladies in bikinis. But you’ve got to watch the video:

More at CR, including a “making of” video.

Site of the day: Open Media Directory

Jake Can Do — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:55:00 +0000

The Open Media Directory is a clearinghouse of dozens of different sites where you can find legal, podsafe music, audio and video clips.

For anyone who wants to add a music soundtrack to their online video or add music to a podcast, the Open Media Directory is a treasure.