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recent youtube discoveries
24 Apr 2020 09:28 pmI found out there's a fandom of people on YouTube who just create and film elaborate Rube Goldberg machines to do trivial things. Most of the ones that I watched became so torturous that it was difficult following the action, or so long that my attention drifted off, but the first one I watched, How to Pass the Salt While Maintaining Proper Social Distance by Joseph's Machines and Sprice Machines, hit a sweet spot of just long enough to get a bit surreal and therefore firmly ridiculous, but not long or convoluted enough to be offputting - that's possibly why it won the algorithm optimization and got recommended first.
Other recent YouTube discoveries include Device Orchestra, which tunes electronic devices and produces things like covers of pop music on electric toothbrushes and typewriters, and the Floppotron, an elaborate arrangement of computer components including two printers, a wall of floppy drives and a phalanx of optical drives which the creator uses to play his own arrangements of a variety of past and current popular music and video game music.
But definitely the most impressive music thing I've discovered lately is Luna Lee's virtuosic gayageum covers of rock songs (apparently she was going to be at sxsw?). The gayageum is a large Korean zither-like stringed instrument which looks nearly identical to the Japanese koto and is related to a variety of other Asian stringed instruments. It's reminiscent of the Finnish kantele too, but quite a bit bigger than the standard kantele, although there's a giant version with legs for concerts... but there's nobody on YouTube doing anything like this with the kantele.
Other recent YouTube discoveries include Device Orchestra, which tunes electronic devices and produces things like covers of pop music on electric toothbrushes and typewriters, and the Floppotron, an elaborate arrangement of computer components including two printers, a wall of floppy drives and a phalanx of optical drives which the creator uses to play his own arrangements of a variety of past and current popular music and video game music.
But definitely the most impressive music thing I've discovered lately is Luna Lee's virtuosic gayageum covers of rock songs (apparently she was going to be at sxsw?). The gayageum is a large Korean zither-like stringed instrument which looks nearly identical to the Japanese koto and is related to a variety of other Asian stringed instruments. It's reminiscent of the Finnish kantele too, but quite a bit bigger than the standard kantele, although there's a giant version with legs for concerts... but there's nobody on YouTube doing anything like this with the kantele.
