Michael Perkins

Brilliant diva Joss Stone and legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck perform I Put a Spell on You.



See Also:
Blood, Sweat and Tears: God Bless the Child
Billie Holiday sings Fine and Mellow
Chris Botti & Sting perform My Funny Valentine
Renee Fleming and Bill Frisell

PROJECT Trio is a unique chamber music ensemble featuring Greg Pattillo (flute, see Beatbox Bach), Eric Stephenson (Cello) and Peter Seymour (Bass). PROJECT Trio incorporates a variety of musical styles and techniques to create a unique and entertaining musical experience. In the video below, they perform the Bach Bourree in E minor. For more information about the group, including additional videos, go to http://www.whatisproject.org.



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Banjoist Bela Fleck Plays Bach
Trumpeter Paul Mayes Performs Bach
Beatbox Bach
Pocket Jazz: Summertime on the iBone
Embouchure
Blood, Sweat and Tears: God Bless the Child
Billie Holiday sings Fine and Mellow
Chris Botti & Sting perform My Funny Valentine
Renee Fleming and Bill Frisell

Beatbox Flautist, Greg Pattillo, performs Bach Badinerie.



See Also:
Pocket Jazz: Summertime on the iBone
Embouchure
Blood, Sweat and Tears: God Bless the Child
Billie Holiday sings Fine and Mellow
Chris Botti & Sting perform My Funny Valentine
Renee Fleming and Bill Frisell

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
-- Voltaire








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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened ...

This amazing video features Gershwin's Summertime played on an iPhone application called the iBone.



Related:
Embouchure
Blood, Sweat and Tears: God Bless the Child
Billie Holiday sings Fine and Mellow
Chris Botti & Sting perform My Funny Valentine
Renee Fleming and Bill Frisell

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Embouchure

I want a man who can blow a trumpet,
a chet-baker-square-jaw-jazz-man, a man
who understands embouchure, who knows
what to do with his lips and tongue, who
knows what to do—and what not to do—
with his teeth. I want a man who knows
how to breathe, a long slow exhale, past
himself and through you, into you. I want
a man who can make a brass horn sing,
scream a little, scream loud sometimes,
a melody, a harmony, a whispered prayer.
I want a horn man, a brass man, a trumpet
player, a man who knows how to blow,
how to make his lips buzz, how to double
tongue. I want a man who will make love
to music he makes up himself, who’ll make
me want to respond, react, breathe back,
sway my hips in bed. I want a man who
will make me feel like I’m an integral part
of an orchestra, or make me feel like an
intimate part of a jazz ensemble, or make
me feel like the mouth of a river, a tributary,
the current that carried Moses, that made
him a king, a hero, a savior, a man.

--Paula J. Lambert

The Fibonacci Sequence is a special sequence of natural numbers discovered by the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in the thirteenth century. The sequence begins with 0, 1 and continues with each subsequent number being the sum of the previous two numbers.

    0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 ...

The Fibonacci numbers can be found throughout nature and art. In nature, for instance, the number of lines in the spirals on a sunflower is almost always a Fibonacci number. Similar patterns are found in pine cones and pineapples. Also, the sequence of the ratios of adjacent Fibonacci numbers approaches the constant known as the Golden Mean which figures prominently in architecture and art.

In the video below, composer and pianist Bence Peter performs a composition based on the Fibonacci Sequence. Peter mapped the Fibonacci numbers onto the diatonic scale to generate the notes used in the composition.

The following video was created by Jonathan Brandel using the Processing programming language. The overlayed animation appears to be reacting to motion in the video. Brandel describes it as "new type of interactive visualization combining computer vision and audio analysis." Click here for more awesome videos by Brandel.

Emily Howell is a computer program that composes sophisticated and original music. Emily was created by composer, music theorist and computer scientist David Cope. The following samples of Emily Howell's music appeared with an interesting Miller-McCune article called Triumph of the Cyborg Composer.

Emily Howell Sample 1
Emily Howell Sample 2

To hear more samples of Emily Howell's music, check out this NPR interview with David Cope.

Manny Tan's Wiggle is a fun little interactive animation programmed in Processing.  You can interact by moving your mouse or clicking in the animation space.  Click here to play.