Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet
An evening pause: A nice mix of art, food, and engineering.
Tag: music
Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot
An evening pause: From the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate. Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown
An evening pause: Performed live at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978. What makes this particular video intriguing is that it focuses entirely on what the drummer is doing.
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
An evening pause: Animation by Jessica Cope.
Hat tip Jack O’Leary.
Saving a tree
An evening pause: Is there nothing modern technology can’t do?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Judy Collins with Shawn Colvin – Since You’ve Asked
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
The greatest electronic music of the fifties and sixties
Link here. Many of these could easily be an evening pause, other than the fact that they don’t have visuals. If you want to get a feel for the beginnings of electronic music, check them out. The styles range from space music to jazzy. The sampling even includes the electronic music from Forbidden Planet (1956), one of the best science fiction films ever made. I have put one as an example below the fold.
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Ana Yang – Blowing bubbles
An evening pause: Just watch.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
Glenn Miller – In the mood
An evening pause: From the 1954 Jimmy Stewart film, The Glenn Miller Story. They play on, even as a German V1 buzz bomb comes flying in.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mark Knopfler – Going Home
An evening pause: The closing music from the 1983 film Local Hero, performed live by its composer Mark Knopfler.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Animusic – Acoustic Curves
An evening pause: It has been a while since I posted some animusic. Hat tip to Keith Douglas for reminding me of that lack.