Posts tagged videos
Posts tagged videos
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Tuvan throat-singing, in which the singer, Kongar-ol Ondar, simultaneously sings a bass note and a tune made up of overtones.
With apologies for the cringingly inane introduction by the American presenter.
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Beautifully self-accompanied throat-singing. No “overtone singing” in this despite the title on YouTube, but use of a technique for singing impossibly low notes in the outer sections, and high falsetto in the middle section.
I don’t know the name of the string instrument, but do know I admire how expressively it’s played.
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Thoroughly excellent. :-)
Hitler reacts to ‘Hitler reacts’. Über meta.
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Kathryn Tickell - ‘Air Moving’ (by newparkfilms)
An enthusiastic percussion player remembered in anecdote and then in music.
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The Barrel Organ—effectively a 12-minute cadenza including bits of Paganini etc. Alexei Arkhipovsky, balalaika.
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Mission Impossible theme on balalaika. Alexei Arkhipovsky.
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More virtuoso balalaika playing. Eastern by Alexei Arkhipovsky.
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Think you know what balalaika music sounds like? Listen to this. Balalaika Amok played by Alexei Arkhipovsky.
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“Man balances sticks” really doesn’t do this justice. Amazing act somewhere between sculpture and performance art.
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Interview with Simon Tofield, creator of Simon’s Cat.