This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall.
Happy 80th Birthday to artist Peter Blake! Blake designed the cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
1 -Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
2 -Aleistar Crowley
3 -Mae West (actress)
4 -Lenny Bruce (comic)
5 -Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
6 -W.C. Fields (comic)
7 -Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
8 -Edgar Allen Poe (writer)
9 -Fred Astaire (actor)
10 -Richard Merkin (artist)
11 -The Varga Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
*12 -Leo Gorcey (actor)
13 -Huntz Hall (actor)
14 -Simon Rodia (creator of Watts Towers)
15 -Bob Dylan (musician)
16 -Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
17 -Sir Robert Peel (politician)
18 -Aldous Huxley (writer)
19 -Dylan Thomas (poet)
20 - Terry Southern (writer)
21 -Dion di Mucci (singer)
22 -Tony Curtis (actor)
23 -Wallace Berman (artist)
24 -Tommy Handley (comic)
25 -Marilyn Monroe (actress)
26 -William Burroughs (writer)
27 -Sri Mahavatara Babaji (guru)
28 -Stan Laurel (comic)
29 -Richard Lindner (artist)
30 -Oliver Hardy (comic)
31 - Karl Marx (philosopher/ socialist)
32 -H.G. Wells (writer)
34 -wax hairdresser’s dummy
33 -Sri Parahamansa Yogananda (guru)
35 -Stuart Sutcliff (former Beatle)
36 -wax hairdresser’s dummy
37 -Max Miller (comic)
38 -The Petty Girl (by artist George Petty)
39 -Marlon Brando (actor)
40 -Tom Mix (actor)
41 -Oscar Wilde (writer)
42 -Tyrone Power (actor)
43 -Larry Bell (artist)
44 -Dr. David Livingstone (missionary)
45 -Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
46 -Stephen Crane (writer)
47 -Issy Bonn (comic)
48 -George Bernard Shaw (writer)
49 -H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
50 -Albert Stubbins (soccer player)
51 -Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
52 -Lewis Carroll (writer)
53 -T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia)
54 -Sonny Liston (boxer)
55 -The Petty Girl
56 -Wax model of George Harrison
57 -Wax model of John Lennon
58 -Shirley Temple (child actress)
59 -Wax model of Ringo Starr
60 -Wax model of Paul McCartney
61 -Albert Einstein (physicist)
62 -John Lennon holding a French Horn
63 -Ringo Starr holding a trumpet
64 -Paul McCartney holding a cor anglais
65 -George Harrison holding a flute
66 -Bobby Breen (singer)
67 -Marlene Dietrich (actress)
#68 -Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (Indian leader)
69 -Legionnaire from Order of the Buffalos
70 -Diana Dors (actress)
71 -Shirley Temple (child actress)
72 -Cloth grandmother figure by Jann Haworth
73 -Cloth figure of Shirley Temple by Haworth
74 -Mexican candlestick
75 -Television Set
76 -Stone figure of a girl
77 -Stone figure
78 -Statue from John Lennon’s house
79 -Trophy
80 -Four armed Indian doll
81 -Drum-skin designed by Joe Ephgrave
82 -Hookah (water tobacco pipe)
83 -Velvet Snake
84 -Japanese Stone Figure
85 -Stone Figure of Snow White
86 -Garden gnome
87 -Tuba
* painted out because a fee was requested
# painted out at the request of EMI
Ten Great Years of The Beatles
“Ten Great Years”, a wonderful illustration by Maxim Dalton celebrating the ten years The Beatles were together making great music. It’s available as a limited run Giclée print.
A series bringing together the previously disparate worlds of indie-rock and information graphics, for reasons that still aren’t immediately clear. Large-format limited screenprints, the first of which being a lyrical and statistical analysis of Destroyer’s Destroyer’s Rubies.
The Rise and Fall of Wu-Tang, an epic infodiscography in three parts
“It’s so large (14,000 px) i had to break it into three parts,” Jess explains. “The vital stats for every release of every member of the Wu.”
Les réalisateurs anglais d’Us ont pu présenter récemment le nouveau clip de Benga illustrant le morceau “I will never change”. Reprenant l’idée d’un assemblage de 980 vinyls pour donner une fréquence musicale. Un rendu réussi à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab, explains music conducting in this beautifully produced video. It’s part interview with Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, and part rendering of motion capture data, which represents Gilbert’s conducting.
To capture the data, the Movement Lab installed high-speed motion capture cameras, and Gilbert put on one of those funny-looking suits with the sensor balls on them. He conducted, and they recorded his body and his hands.
A map showing the number of metal bands per capita.
For more than three decades, veteran music journalist Pete Frame has specialized in creating fantastic Rock Family Trees that map relationships between musicians and bands. In the comments on my post yesterday about our Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree, commenter Preston Sruges pointed us to Frame’s family tree of New York New Wave, featuring the likes of Blondie, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, and The Ramones.
Song-worthy Cities: Places mentioned in country music hits and the words most commonly used.
(via Valentine’s Day charts – Last.fm)
I’m really enjoying this recent spurge of infographics from Last.fm!
Song Map, A Road Map of Song Titles
“Song Map” is an imaginary road map in which all road and location names are taken from song titles (e. g. “Highway to Hell” and “Heartbreak Hotel”).
