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We make soundtracks for videos of bugs

Mrs. TheCoug enjoys to make videos of cool bugs she finds. A while back she suggested that we set them to music, and so that's what we did.
posted by TheCoug on Oct 6, 2020 - 3 comments

Lost Notes: 1980

Lost Notes is a music documentary podcast from KCRW (Santa Monica, CA). For our third season, the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores a single year: 1980 - the brilliant, awkward, and sometimes heartbreaking opening to a monumental decade in popular music. Check out the episode guide in the Extended Description. Here's my essay introducing the series. [Previously on Projects: Season 1 | Season 2] [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on Sep 26, 2020 - 3 comments

Messages From Sagittarius A*

An eclectic radio show where I essentially play three hours of whatever I've been listening to that week and have a drink. All feedback is enjoyed.
posted by lucidium on Jun 29, 2020 - 0 comments

Arigato: A minimal, unopinionated toolkit for scripting with AudioUnits

I have written a lightweight system for making it convenient to play AudioUnit software instruments in code on macOS. Arigato consists of a tool, ARigEditor, for creating networks of pre-prepared AudioUnits (which I call ARigs, hence the name), tagged with names, and a library for loading these and doing things with them in Swift, typically in Xcode Playgrounds. Oh, and ARigEditor will also generate Playgrounds containing your AudioUnits and the necessary support code. [more inside]
posted by acb on Jun 2, 2020 - 3 comments

Trey Fontaine

Bizarrely, and for reasons too long and dull to explain, I’ve released an album of odd rock guitar instrumentals under the pseudonym Trey Fontaine. [more inside]
posted by Grangousier on Apr 30, 2020 - 2 comments

Every Day A Song

It took a plague to slow me down enough to realize a years-held dream: posting a new video to youtube every day (almost) of me playing the guitar and singing a song. Been at it for a couple of weeks now and it's going pretty good! Covers so far include Lucinda Williams, Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, and Steven Universe, plus a bunch by Trad of Itional, and I would describe the musical style as crude but heartfelt. Hope you enjoy!
posted by slappy_pinchbottom on Apr 17, 2020 - 0 comments

In Praise of Borders Radio Archive

An archive of my 2004/2005 radio show's set lists (with album covers, links to music videos or artist websites where possible, and liner notes). The show was about more-or-less-contemporary world music, w/ a focus on genre/cultural crossover instead of traditional folk forms. [more inside]
posted by Fish Sauce on Mar 24, 2020 - 0 comments

What makes this song terrible?

Is this episode, we examine the song "Bad and Boujee" by Migos, exploring what makes it so profoundly irritating. Inspired by Rick Beato's "What makes this song great?" project.
posted by 4midori on Nov 24, 2019 - 1 comment

"Finding Connection" - indie 'a cappella' musical theater

"Finding Connection" is an original 40 minute indie musical theater production about finding personal connection in a digitally connected world. The production was filmed by the composer and actors on their cellphones and a camcorder. Here is the link to the YouTube playlist, containing 11 songs and 7 dialogues. The musical score features the human voice exclusively - there are no other instruments. Each song is different, ranging from musical theater, spoken word, metal, rap, and modern choral. I am the composer and film-maker, and I also sing/rap in some of the songs. [more inside]
posted by smokysunday on Nov 19, 2019 - 1 comment

Absolute Bleeding Edge

My newsletter about the most outre, experimental, and interesting art, film, music, performance and other expressions of culture I can find. Published several times per week. [more inside]
posted by maxsparber on Nov 10, 2019 - 3 comments

What Is Your Deal With Carly Rae Jepsen?

Two years ago, after enduring my numerous (NUMEROUS) social media posts and IRL chatter about her, a good friend of mine pointedly asked me WHAT IS YOUR DEAL WITH CARLY RAE JEPSEN? So this few thousand words here is my explanation of the nature of my deal with Carly Rae Jepsen.
posted by Maaik on Oct 22, 2019 - 5 comments

After the Gold Rush

I have created (as per a friend's request) a cover version and video for Neil Young's After the Gold Rush. [more inside]
posted by joecacti on Oct 16, 2019 - 2 comments

All the Buddha Boxes: 70 Songs for 70 Years of China

A song for each year of the People’s Republic of China. An attempt to distill the many diverse, fascinating currents of music in mainland China over the last 70 years into a primer, an invitation to dig deeper. From revolutionary operas and western classical to rock’n’roll, disco, punk and hip-hop — a musical history of the PRC with an eye for the regional, underground and (nefarious) foreign influences. [more inside]
posted by beijingbrown on Oct 8, 2019 - 1 comment

Not Your 'Baby': A Comic on China's Punk Rock Pioneers

The crazy, heartbreaking story of Hang on the Box, one of China's earliest all-women punk bands. Excerpted from a (forthcoming!) comic-book history of Beijing's musical underground. [more inside]
posted by beijingbrown on Sep 6, 2019 - 1 comment

Redemption Songs

I drew a longform comic on the fascinating, intertwined story of China and reggae. Chinese Jamaican music producers helped turn reggae into a global sensation—one that would eventually reach all the way to the country their ancestors had left behind. [more inside]
posted by beijingbrown on Jun 21, 2019 - 4 comments

A Folia For Wallace

My name is Fred Miller, and this is my 4th self-released album. Available at this link (website hosted on AWS S3), and iTunes, Spotify, etc. Enjoy! [more inside]
posted by joecacti on Jun 18, 2019 - 1 comment

Lost Notes (Season 2)

I wanted to wait until we had a sufficient pile of episodes out there to share, but ... Lost Notes is back for another season! Our exec producer/host this season is the great Jessica Hopper - one of the sharpest music writers and critics in the room. Check out the episode guide in the Extended Description. [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on May 22, 2019 - 1 comment

Plink

A macOS-based music programming environment for hosting AudioUnit instruments and effects and allowing them to be played and controlled with code written in JavaScript, optionally driven by a score. (Work under development.) [more inside]
posted by acb on Apr 17, 2019 - 0 comments

About Faces

I released my first LP, About Faces, after several years of sometimes-intermittent writing and recording. It's about adapting to some significant changes in my partner's life trajectory and, relatedly, struggling with my own issues with emotions and vulnerability related to toxic masculinity, though the tone is mostly upbeat and positive. The genre is broadly "indie rock" but with some genre deviations and experimental and unorthodox bits to it. [more inside]
posted by valrus on Apr 7, 2019 - 0 comments

Noon All Year ... and more

3350 days ago I posted to Metafilter Project a timelapse music video about the founding year of our little sheep farm in Vermont. Since then, the camera equipment has definitely improved ... and the videos have gotten significantly shorter.* Most importantly, the view is still awesome. [more inside]
posted by terrapin on Feb 7, 2019 - 8 comments

Endarkenment: Dark Ambient Music Newsletter

Endarkenment is a new digital subscription periodical + web archive of contemplative writing on dark ambient music appreciation. The author is a longtime dark ambient nerd who's also writing a book (with interview quotes) about the genre. Newsletter features include deep-dive interviews, themed playlists + liner notes, and an underrated albums series. The default subscription tier is free; readers can upgrade to help support the artists and gain full access to all interviews. [more inside]
posted by velvet winter on Feb 2, 2019 - 0 comments

Moshpit Memories II (1982-2002): Alan Moore, The Pogues, Jim Rose & pals

What we have here is a sequel to PlanetSlade's 2015 collection of gig-going anecdotes from the golden age of UK pub rock, punk and ska (previously on Projects). This time round, I'm covering the years from 1982 -2002, when my major obsessions included Alan Moore, The Pogues, The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and any twanged-up country band I could find playing the bars of Nashville, Austin, San Antonio and Detroit. [more inside]
posted by Paul Slade on Jan 12, 2019 - 2 comments

WOKE ME UP INSIDE: Evanescence, Wokeness, and 2018

(note to mods: I posted this two months ago when it was a little baby; it is now a Whole Done Thing and I thought it might be OK to repost it as such. Feel free to slap my hand, delete, etc. if not.) A complete essay series reconsidering Evanescence's major label debut Fallen through a variety of feminist-theory lenses, because... why not. Or, from the intro post: "What I do want to do is take an album I liked, and still like, and reconsider it as the person I am now, in the world I’m forced by the dreadful circumstances of linear time to live in today." [more inside]
posted by Kybard on Jan 4, 2019 - 0 comments

The Moonlight Sonata but the bass is a bar late and the melody is a bar early

the title pretty much says it all
posted by speicus on Dec 19, 2018 - 9 comments

Playlists from The Site

There are quite frequently posts on AskMe or MetaFilter asking for song ideas or listing songs by artist or genre or etc. [more inside]
posted by bendy on Nov 25, 2018 - 3 comments

Altered States Podcast-with help from MeFi

With some help from a MeFi Ask query, I did a radio show focusing on altered states. Here's the Soundcloud file. (sorry it's not well edited as far as commercials, but you can move the slider up.)
posted by GospelofWesleyWillis on Sep 30, 2018 - 0 comments

Woke Me Up Inside: Evanescence and Feminism

An in-progress reconsideration of Evanescence's major debut Fallen through a variety of feminist-theory lenses, because... why not. Or, from the intro post: "What I do want to do is take an album I liked, and still like, and reconsider it as the person I am now, in the world I’m forced by the dreadful circumstances of linear time to live in today." [more inside]
posted by Kybard on Sep 20, 2018 - 1 comment

The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf.

Capsule reviews of supernaturally themed novelty songs.
posted by maxsparber on Jul 30, 2018 - 6 comments

Tacoma Power E.P.

A 4 song E.P. written and recorded between June and July 2018. A continuation of an ongoing art project exploring the ephemerality, fragmentation and invisibility of being trans and queer. [more inside]
posted by nikaspark on Jul 24, 2018 - 2 comments

Country Music and Alcohol

A follow up to my last project post two years ago -- inspired by that discussion at MeFi and by this recent Washington Post article.
posted by neat graffitist on Jul 24, 2018 - 1 comment

The Opposite of Forecasting

Using real time weather data collected in Austin, TX, I've created a piece of music that streams online. [more inside]
posted by lownote on Jul 18, 2018 - 5 comments

We've Been Had

We've Been Had is a podcast dedicated to walking through the catalog of the band Uncle Tupelo song by song. Said walking is done by a couple of idiots from Minneapolis who have been fans of the band for a couple of decades. Discussion is erudite and ridiculous, occasionally digressing into whether a store that sells liquor and guns would get robbed a lot, or what's really going on in that Loverboy song about working for the weekend. Also, Son Volt and Wilco get brought up a lot.
posted by the phlegmatic king on Jul 12, 2018 - 3 comments

Dr Poopy's Medicinal Jam

Dr Poopy's Medicinal Jam is a weekly live stream of live music, running every Tuesday evening from 7.30pm to 9.30pm UK time. Vibe leans generally towards acoustica / Americana but you never know. [more inside]
posted by motty on Jun 18, 2018 - 1 comment

Hip-Hop Radio Archive

The Hip-Hop Radio Archive aims to digitize, preserve, share, and contextualize recordings of hip-hop radio from the 1980s and 1990s from commercial, college, community, and pirate stations of all sizes, telling the stories of the shows and the people that made them. [more inside]
posted by laze on Jun 14, 2018 - 4 comments

The EuroWhat?

A Eurovision Song Contest podcast made by and for Americans. We dive deep into the selection processes, songs, artists, and pageantry of Eurovision in the hopes of making our friends and listeners less baffled by what they are witnessing. Available via iTunes, for Android, on Google Play, or direct via RSS.
posted by zebra on Apr 20, 2018 - 4 comments

Hawkins Bay Dispatch

A daily list of news and views you can use. [more inside]
posted by kingharvest on Apr 13, 2018 - 1 comment

Lost Notes

My brand-new podcast for KCRW! Wheee! Over a year in the making, it's a brand-new series devoted to “the greatest music stories never truly told.” [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on Apr 12, 2018 - 4 comments

Dan Fuehring Lives On

In October 2015, my father and frequent Metafilter contributor Dan Fuehring (better known as Danf) died of cancer. One of his (many) great loves in life was music. You may remember him posting some of his compositions on Mefi Music. I have finally finished cataloguing, publishing and creating an online archive of his music recordings. [more inside]
posted by aspenkf on Apr 10, 2018 - 4 comments

I Will Dance Among The Stars

"Pampa (Dansa Ere Da Setara)" is a song I wrote in Lang Belta, the Creole language spoken by the humans who live in and beyond the Asteroid Belt on the TV show The Expanse. Its a story of tough lives and hard choices in a harsh environment. The lyrics in both Belter & English. [more inside]
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey on Mar 27, 2018 - 6 comments

Playing at editing films to music

I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try and make films using only creative commons and public domain footage. I started by making a series of films to accompany the music of a friend and am now branching out to visually accompanying classical music. I'm trying to work out if I'm wasting my time here and would supremely love some feedback on the films I've been making.
posted by ebear on Mar 25, 2018 - 3 comments

Ukulele song book index, and chord tracker

I like to play the ukulele everyday. I know a bunch of chords but not all of them. I wanted to have a tool that searches song books based on which chords I already know, so I could discover new songs and navigate my books better. Click the chord diagrams you know, and it displays a directory of all the songs you can play with those chords. [more inside]
posted by a complicated history on Feb 8, 2018 - 2 comments

Official music video for the first song from my debut solo album

This music video is for the song Make Do, which is track 1 on my forthcoming debut solo electronic music album, Beat Smoothie. [more inside]
posted by acridrabbit on Feb 1, 2018 - 1 comment

How I Became A 44 Year Old Rapper

After a night of being teased for performing both the Running Man and the Roger Rabbit, I bet my wife and her friends I could make a legitimate hip-hop video and make $10 from strangers on the internet. I decided to completely commit to this bet for the sake of pride, art and the culture of hip-hop. I present to the fine folks of Metafilter......."Never Bet Your Money On Another Man's Game" [more inside]
posted by jasondigitized on Jan 25, 2018 - 6 comments

New music: Flash of a Smile

Here's a collection of self-penned, home-recorded pop songs. All done 100% with Linux, tip to tail (a twist I hope makes them MeFi Projects-worthy). [more inside]
posted by quarterframer on Jan 4, 2018 - 0 comments

New Album by Heartmath: "All the light"

Faced with the bitter end of a treasured relationship, composer Heartmath was heavy with grief, lost, unmoored. Since energy can neither be destroyed nor created, only transformed from one state to another, he chose to pour his feelings into "All the light", recorded as a paean, a tribute, to honor his cherished experience and the woman he shared it with. [more inside]
posted by 4midori on Dec 25, 2017 - 0 comments

Funky Christmas - A Chillout, Funk, Soul, and Whimsical Christmas Mix for you to Enjoy.

Year 3 in one of my newer Christmas traditions. Almost 2 hours of music to drink Christmas Martini's to. A story in 5 chapters: Mellow, Funky, Street, Whimsical and Sleepy. Optimized for Maximum Hygge. This was also a chance for me to practice my skills as Mastering Engineer after taking a class at it. [more inside]
posted by jonnay on Dec 24, 2017 - 0 comments

"Come With Me", original filmed micro-opera

"Come With Me" is a new opera written, composed, and filmed by me, and sung by me and a few friends (we're all professional singers) . The opera is micro in scale, at just over 12 minutes, but is packed with full-sized drama, passion, and singing. The concept behind composing and filming "Come With Me" to post on YouTube is to present opera in the same way as other contemporary music - short, sweet, and directly to your phone or computer. [more inside]
posted by smokysunday on Dec 18, 2017 - 0 comments

Wild Country.

Essays on the weirder side of country music, including peculiar covers of Country Western songs and Country songs about weird themes. [more inside]
posted by maxsparber on Dec 3, 2017 - 2 comments

Ghost Records

An ongoing series of imagined albums from artist discographies.
posted by davebush on Nov 15, 2017 - 0 comments

WAFFLES! A weekly radio show/podcast on varying themes

A different theme each week! MeFite Kitteh and I co-host a Saturday-morning radio show at CFRC in Kingston, Ontario, and for over three years we've picked a weekly theme and explored it through music, in every style imaginable. I've been pushing the archives to podcast (legally, under a SOCAN 22F tariff) for a while now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or Google Play (search for Waffles Radio)! The site also archives a summer radio fill-in/podcast on video game music and composers, Virtualosos, which ultimately wasn't sustainable.
posted by Shepherd on Nov 2, 2017 - 3 comments

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