La période classique Romantique, qui couvre plus ou moins le XIXe siècle, a été l'occasion pour nombre de compositeurs de s'essayer à la transposition de poèmes en musique. Deux des plus célèbres exemples sont l'Apprenti sorcier de Paul Dukas (qui a été mis en image par Walt Disney), et la Danse Macabre de Camille Saint-Saens.

La vidéo qui suit est une masterclass qui analyse et explique les détails insoupçonnés de ces deux œuvres que j'affectionne tout particulièrement, le tout expliqué par Jean-François Zygel.

Alma Deursher, an amazing teenager who can compose music in less than a minute based on four random notes picked from a hat !

Mark Mancina's “Pink Panther” theme, played as a fugue in the style of J. S. Bach, by Stéphane Delplace

Here's another rendition of Mozart's “Alla Turca”, which reminds me a lot of Pierre-Yves Plat

Percussions can be harder than any other instruments. Here's a video, from the point of view of the percussionist, playing the musical “West Side Story”

Back in april 2016, I talked about Classical Mashup. Well grantwoolard is at it again with a new mashup.

When I was young, I used to watch a series called The Wizard in which an inventor had lots of amazing gadgets (at least they seemed amazing then). One of those devices was a pair of drumsticks you could play anywhere and it would play drum sounds... Well this is now a dream come true thanks to FreeDrum.

Two weeks ago, Andrew Huang (a canadian music producer), added a video on his Youtube channel, asking viewers to end a melody he started.

He ended with 147 submissions, which extracted some interesting statistics from.

Youtube user Vika (vkgoeswild), in between playing her own piano compositions, plays cover of famous songs. Among others, I found this cover of Metallica's Master if puppet, which I wanted to share.

Youtube user grantwoolard took 57 classical pieces, from 33 different compositor (from JS Bach to John Willams), and created this six minutes mashup, with an animated sheet music.

I've already said that I'm a huge find of Animusic, especially Pipe's dream, which Intel have already built in real life.

Today, I've discovered this incredible Marble Machine, created by Wintergatan with wood gears, springs and lots of lego pieces to program the main melody. It uses thousands of marbles to play a combination of vibraphone, bass guitar and a cardboard based drumset.

You can watch the two parts making to see how he constructed the whole machine.

Overtune is something natural in all live instruments, including the human voice. But being able to control it to sing two distinct melodies at once is an amazing talent.

In this video, Anna-Maria explains how it works. You can also find lessons on her Youtube channel to learn how to sing like her.

Source : my wife

Here's an advertisment for the Android operating system, which, I think, extraordinarily delivers their message : Be together, not the same. This is how Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3^rd movement) would sound on a piano playing only a middle C.

You can also discover the making of, and an extended version below