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Unrefined "Musician" Gains a Global Audience
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "An unskilled musician performed a catchy pop instrumental for more than one million YouTube users even though he can't play a lick of drums or piano. The 22-year-old Norwegian's tool was stop-motion video, WSJ.com reports. From the article: 'To make "Amateur," Mr. Gjertsen recorded each analog beat and note one by one on video. He transferred the sounds from each video clip into audio files, which he could rearrange with the Fruity Loops sound-editing program — the same software he's used to create his all-digital music in the past. After organizing the sound files into the right order, Mr. Gjertsen reconstructed the pattern with the original video files. In the final product, he insists, nothing about his performance was digitally enhanced. "You have the original sounds from the video," he says.'"
Its the hair, man.
He should take it on the road!
So basically he made a MIDI track using live instrument samples?
Now this is cutting edge stuff here - simply by dictating what pitch, how long, and when notes should be played, he was able to "perform" an entire song!!
Can you imagine the potential of this? Why, you could be an entire orchestra by yourself! In fact, you could even perform this kind of trick LIVE - simply substitute musicians skilled in their instruments for the samples, and in order to "control" them, you could provide them with the musical instructions somehow on paper. Of course you'd have to implement some kind of global timer to keep them all together, but it seems very doable!
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Yeah, thanks, I saw that same link in the summary.
Bring on the remixes ... a little star wars kid action and we got a serious music video!
exit out of X, recompile your kernel with the correct modules (make sure you run make clean and make mrproper first). edit grub to load the new kernel, reboot and you should be all set.
if that does not work, grab a live cd and burn it on yout back up machine (you had one right?) boot up your machine from the live cd then mount the hdd and modify grub to load the old kernel. its as simple as that.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
he never uses anything but one symbol--I mean, there's three or four others, try the ride!--and a little bit of hi-hat
It's cymbal, not symbol. I'm not a musician and even I know that.
Even people that believe in pre-destiny look both ways before crossing the street.
Being a pedantic dick works a lot better when you can spell cymbal
No sooner do I get over one, then you put a better one right next to me. Bastards.
He was being cymbolic. Don't have a tympani tantrum, hehehehe
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Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
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Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
How did YOU think he became deaf?
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