Video: Erik and Anna from Dråm playing some of the Swedish dance tunes they taught in their workshop at Vaka in Akureyri:
Video: Erik and Anna from Dråm playing some of the Swedish dance tunes they taught in their workshop at Vaka in Akureyri:
Apparently Japanese Captain Scarlet was a thing and it was AMAZING:
キャプテン・スカーレット Captain Scarlet Japanese... by napoleonsolo0011
Video: Benjamin Bech playing Icelandic dance tunes at VAKA 2015:
These tunes are three of the pieces of music Benjamin has discovered whilst researching old dance music known to have been played in Iceland. All three feel to me like polkas, although the second (“ræll”) could probably be played as a schottish too.
Wonderful vocal harmonies in this T Sisters version of Come When I Call You:
#listening to Aldrei skal eg gleymur þér by FUNI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcSG0sxqsMM
With beautiful #iceland photos taken by Chris and Bára, which I stitched together into a video.
That fuzzy feeling when people give you really, really high resolution graphics to work with.
I forgot how much fun even the simplest video editing was.
This is rather a nice interpretation of Die Gedanken sind frei:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbFN-Gb7Rs
Weird, but interesting.
Practice Notes 2014-09-25
By chance, I have access to a piano in my apartment for the first time… ever, actually. Trying to work through sight-reading some of J.S. Bach’s two-part inventions (score, warning: PDF). Inventio 4 in D minor is a favourite, and I can get through either part on its own without too much trouble, or both together VERY slowly.
Also put simple chords to De Montford and played along with a rather excellent video by Starymonetti, who I met half of in Vienna this summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVXgsgGT0gI
Also: explained the inner workings of the hurdy gurdies’ mysterious buzzing sound to my roommate. It’s not actually effectively explained anywhere on the web as far as I can tell, so if you’re curious:
One (or more) of the strings rest on bridges which are not adhered to the instrument but rather sit in a slot and can pivot. A string (the “tirant” en Français) applies force to the non-vibrating part of the string, pulling the pivoting bridge down firmly against the soundboard. The amount of tension on the tirant sets the threshold of energy with which the string must be vibrating in order to pivot the bridge, at which point a slip-stick cycle starts to happen, repeatedly pivoting the bridge before it slips back, hammering against the soundboard.
Introducing American+Icelandic friends to Smash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ3nnn7-JO0
For more, there’s a compilation.
Posting a new note having just logged into my site using GPG via indieauth.com!
Update: here’s a short screencast documenting the creation of this note:
“Activism is the rent I pay for being on this beautiful planet
” — the ever-awesome Ama Menec dishes out political tools and inspiration in equal measure in her post-badger-walk speech:
The icelandaurorafilms.com trailer is out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFSntB_ifFk
WARNING: side effects of watching this video may include sudden reduction of wealth due to implusive flight-buying. Caution advised! Buy only Winter flights, as there is NO AURORA in the Summer due to TOO MUCH SUN.
“Watch out for the ego of the hour
The ones who say they know it
Are the ones who will impose it on you”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nqk2164tI
I Aint Afraid (Holly Near) #lyrics #music
New favourite Klezmatics tune:
Ubiquitous computing demo video from 1995 demonstrating seamless creative collaboration across devices and space: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/quicktime/UbiCompTeaScene.qt
Their acting isn’t great but the technology is impressive.
I gave my brother my old MacBook this Christmas, first thing he did was get Final Cut Pro and start making things:
The snailshell collecting is in aid of @jwentomologist’s experiments with this rather cool solitary bee: youtube.com/watch?v=V0uuTiov-w4
Lots of good, if a little bizarre, #gurdy playing in this video (fr):
Enjoyed a pre-preview screening of HEILD by Trailerpark Studios — beautiful film work by an inspiring artist. Also great to meet some folks from @sfembassy — enjoy the rest of your stay in Iceland!
HEILD trailer: