Skibidi is the latest release by the Russian dance/rave/art/electro/satire Little Big. The band/collective have a reputation for their videos, which include the Disney-lawyer-baiting AK-47, Kim Jong Un tribute LollyBomb, the gangster culture Give me your money, to the retirement home Faradenza, the street life With Russia from love, the nightmare-inducing Hateful Love, and the unforgettable {definitely NSFW} piano-playing Big Dick.
Tag: music
Tycho Burning Man Sets
AI mashups
Feed Rave.dj songs and it will mash them right up. It takes a while to generate the resulting remix, but the results are fascinating and often outrageously fun.
Digital super-models
Some of the most eye-catching and spontaneously interesting fashion models popular today have a secret: they may not be human at all. Advances in computer illustration and photography have made virtual high fashion models a super trend. Can you tell them apart from people? Avant-garde stylists are exploring this creative intersection of life + art. These digital personas are rising in the fashion world’s spotlight. This is Miquela: she’s a 19 year old model and singer. But she’s not real. She’s computer generated, created by mysterious start-up called Brud co. Their team of story-tellers dictate her every move. She has 1.2M followers and she collaborates with major artists, brands — and is popping up everywhere. She’s released her own songs with auto-tune and lyrics videos.
Brahms and Radiohead
The most breathtaking musical event this spring will bring together one of the most successful concept albums of all time — Radiohead’s OK COMPUTER — with one of the most important symphonies ever — Brahm’s 1st — in an epic performance. Brahms V. Radiohead is the newest opus from Stereo Hideout Orchestra, whose composer Steve Hackman has married other modern and classical maestros before, like Björk and Bartók, Bon Iver and Aaron Copland. This will be Stereo Hideout’s first NYC performance, and they have hired some of Brooklyn’s most brilliant musicians for the 55-piece orchestra and 3 vocalists who will be seamlessly layering Radiohead’s motifs and lyrics into Brahms’ masterpiece.
Star harmony
By scaling up the orbital frequencies of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system millions of times, they were able to create a harmony we can hear.
Style transfer
cool style transfer. i didn’t listen to the music, which is probably terrible.
AI soundscapes
A Japanese group trained a deep learning algorithm to compose soundscapes for locations on Google Street View.
Skeuomorphic hell
Alone, each plugin is hideous in its own unique way. A panel of 3D knobs here, a pixelated oscilloscope there. But when a project really gets cooking, one can amass 8 or 10 of these interfaces overlapping each other on the screen at once, and that’s when skeuomorph hell really comes into focus. I don’t know why audio software has looked like this for the better part of 20 years, but I’d like to honor these sins of UI with a tour of some of the most egregious examples.
Spinal Tap’s $400M Lawsuit
As Shearer fully appreciates, he and his bandmates may be the perfect plaintiffs for a case like this. Their original deal with Embassy dates from the period before the Buchwald suit motivated studios to find ways to make their contracts more lawsuit-proof, such as adding the mandatory arbitration and confidentiality clauses. The creators may qualify for copyright recapture, giving them even more leverage. And Shearer, at least, has a war chest filled with all that Simpsons money—and is famous enough to get lots of publicity and start shaming the studios right away. They’re not the first to go after Hollywood accounting, but they could be the loudest.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 