Michael Briel: play0303.02
A video I made using the covers of some of my favourite records.
Oozing Death (Music: The Abyss + Gemini I)
A video I recently made to showcase some pictures taken in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP disaster.
Scientology - the Anonymous song
A little song I made a while ago for Youtube - it's a parody of the Augustus Gloop song from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and, obviously, a riff on $cientology. Enjoy!
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Symphony of Science - The Case for Mars! (ft. Zubrin, Sagan, Cox & Boston) & The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)
Two more fantastic pieces of music that celebrate science from "Symphony of Science". Science FTW!
Vince Clarke and the Temple of Synth
To have space like that... I'd have my little home-studio in it as well as my living space and there'd still be enough room left to play a game of soccer... read more »
Still Alive sung by a children's choir
Wow... When I heard "Still alive" after playing through the fantastic game "Portal" for the first time it made me cry like a baby and laugh at the same time. Jonathan Coulton wrote a song to end one of the most original game experiences many players have had in ages and the combination of the literally crazy atmosphere in the game, the mixture of weird melancholy and evil jokes in the lyrics plus the high one sometimes gets from simply having made it through a good game completely overwhelmed me.
Since that day this is one of my absolute favourite tunes.
This version here, sung by a children's choir just blew me away like that first time...
Just... Wow!
The choir-teacher deserves a medal for this! :D
The beauty of the universe
... just "wow!"
I came across these clips on youtube: They feature popular scientists like Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and many more and then ... turn them into music, using Autotune.
Those tunes hit something deep inside me - they tell of the beauty and the wonder in the universe, and the fascination of trying to figure out how might work...
I'm a big "fan" of science - like music it's become an important part of who and what I am. And somehow "Symphony of Science" got together some of my absolute favourite quotes from popular scientists, exactly those who sum up what makes it so important for me that we try to find out all these things... :)
The cosmos is within us, we are made of star-stuff!
Electric Music
No, not Karl Bartos' old band I want to talk about, but making music not just with electronic or electric instruments but with the electricity itself.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I present to you: ArcAttack!
Those dudes built two Tesla Coils in their garage and use the distinct noise those make when unloading - which you can tune by adjusting the flux-phase-thingamajiggy - to play music at raves.
Now, it doesn't sound what you would call "nice". But it was never meant to be. Compare it to Scottish bagpipes, if you like. They weren't meant to sound nice either. They were meant to make you crap your pants in terror, because you were about to get you head cut off by some berserk Scottsmen!
ArcAttacks musical tesla coils work on a similar basis. They are meant to make you crap your pants in terror, because if you get too close to them they will fry you to a crisp. Literally.
If nothing else, then ArcAttack definitely can claim that they got the single most potentially deadly musical instrument in the world there.
Awesome!