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PBS
Are Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
You might have heard about the debut of Hologram Tupac at the music festival Coachella earlier this year. But with Queen's recent announcement of a Hologram Freddie Mercury and TLC's plans for a Hologram Lisa Left Eye Lopes, it looks...
PBS
Is Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
While some people may hear noise, some hear amazing musical genius in the creativity of Dubstep. There is a long history of avant garde musicians and thinkers promoting the concept of noise and non-instrumental sounds as music, much to...
TED Talks
TED: Why corporate diversity programs fail -- and how small tweaks can have big impact | Joan C. Williams
Companies in the US spend billions of dollars each year on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, but subtle (and not so subtle) workplace biases often cost these initiatives -- and the people they're meant to help -- big time by...
Curated Video
Exploring Innovative Audio Visual Technologies in Education
This video showcases two innovative projects in the field of audio visual technology and education. The first project involves students at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth in the UK testing and creating content for a unique audio visual...
Curated Video
Helicopter String Quartet Performance at Salzburg's Hangar 7: A Unique Blend of Music, Aviation, and Charity
Hangar 7 in Salzburg is not just an aircraft collection, but a unique blend of the arts and science. With its stunning steel and glass construction, it houses the Flying Bulls Collection of historic planes and serves as an art gallery...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The physics of playing guitar - Oscar Fernando Perez
Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhythm, melody, and music? Oscar Fernando...
Curated Video
Exploring the Elements and History of Music
Explore the various elements of music, such as pitch, harmony, rhythm, tempo, and timbre, and how they come together to create music. We also discuss the different ways music is made and played around the world, from using our voices and...
TED Talks
TED: The birth of virtual reality as an art form | Chris Milk
Chris Milk uses innovative technologies to make personal, interactive, human stories. Accompanied by Joshua Roman on cello and McKenzie Stubbert on piano, Milk traces his relationship to music and art -- from the first moment he...
TED Talks
TED: A musical escape into a world of light and color | Kaki King
A genre unto herself, Kaki King fuses the ancient tradition of working with one's hands with digital technology, projection-mapping imagery onto her guitar in her groundbreaking multimedia work "The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body." using...
TED Talks
Es Devlin: Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology
It starts with a sketch. Then it evolves into a larger-than-life visual masterpiece, a celebration of human connection. Follow along as legendary artist and designer Es Devlin takes us on a visual tour of her work -- including iconic...
Curated Video
Meet the Techno-Collagist Who Turns Lasers and Human Limbs into Instruments: Sound Builders
Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD hereref='http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here After spending the last month feather dusting episodes from season one of Sound Builders, we're positively tickled to bring...
Curated Video
Musical composition: the future
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Southbank Centre
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | MUSIC - learning about composition and performance
To commemorate 100 years since World War One in Nov 2014, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers. UNCOVERING CLASSICS: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. More...
Curated Video
Musical instruments with valves (1/2)
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IT'S HISTORY
A Tale of Swords and Gunpowder - Weapons in Ancient China l HISTORY OF CHINA
Dao, Gun, Jian and Quiang are the four main traditional fighting weapons of China. Even though, the Chinese had already invented gunpowder by the end of the tenth century. So besides of having an arsenal of swords, spears, sabres,...
Southbank Centre
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | WAR - the ethics of conflict and artistic responses to war
To commemorate 100 years since World War One in Nov 2014, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers. UNCOVERING CLASSICS: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. More...
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Art, Music and Other Visible Things: OAE@Whitechapel Gallery
In collaboration with Community Music, Music Technology students have been given the opportunity to work with OAE players to create a soundscape to accompany The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce. Bringing together...
Creators
Art World: A New Wave of Iraqi Cinema
In the first episode of Art World, The Creators Project explores Baghdad's burgeoning independent film scene, meeting two of its leading directors, Mohamed Al-Daradji (Son of Babylon) and Yahya Al Allaq (War Canister). Iraqi cinema was...
Creators
Afropunk Style, Hyperflesh Masks, and a Deep Web Dive | Culture Beat Episode 2
In this episode of Culture Beat, The Creators Project's bi-weekly roundup of the most exciting, outlandish, and mind-expanding art, we spend the day at music festival Afropunk in Brooklyn, highlighting the unique style of festival goers...
Creators
Cyborg Performance Art
The Creators Project visits the Konvent, a monastery-turned-avant-garde art space in Spain, to meet two artist cyborgs. Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson have received electronic implants that heighten their perception, allowing Neil to hear...
Curated Video
Robots compete in 'mission to Mars'
LEAD IN:It's not been long since European countries were competing on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. Well now they're competing on Mars ... sort of.At Innorobo, one of Europe's leading robotics events, teams from across the continent...
Curated Video
Theatre of Sound. An interview with Aleks Kolkowski
Theatre of Sound highlights the creative re-use of archival sound recordings in the field of sound art and music composition. It also touches on the use of early audio recording technologies in contemporary performance. These topics are...
NASA
Exploring Asteroid Bennu Through Technology
It’s hard to imagine what the surface of a dark, distant asteroid might look like, but NASA’s “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” brings us on a journey to see this landscape up close. The video, which was released in October...