Same Melody in 26 Different Genres

2018 | 12 mins

Here are the genres:
"Epic" Trailer Music
Chant
Renaissance Lute
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Ragtime
Delta Blues
1920's Cartoon Jazz (a variety of old jazz that makes me laugh)
1950's Bubblegum Pop Ballad
1960's Motown
Psychedelic Rock
20th Century Concert Music (much like Ligeti, whom I love)
Disco
Classic Rock (kinda like Boston)
Italo Disco (my guiltiest pleasure)
80's Horror (much like John Carpenter movies or even Stranger Things)
New Jack Swing
16-Bit Video Game (influenced heavily by my constant playing of my Sega Genesis, Megadrive in the rest of the world)
New Age (my wife used to listen to a lot of Enya)
Eurodance (another guilty pleasure)
2000's Rap (blatant Dre 2001 era beat)
Metal (with all the sub genres, what even is metal anymore?)
Ambient Horror (I love Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks)
Dubstep (of the American brostep variety)
Soft Beach Music (the Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz stuff that's still really popular around the Pacific Ocean here)

Score: A Film Music Documentary

DOCUMENTARY | DIRECTED BY MATT SCHRADER|  1 h 23 m | 2017

A look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.
Featuring cinema's most celebrated names in film music, Score: A Film Music Documentary offers a candid look into how composers developed, and continue to develop, some of the most iconic scores in history.

Starring: Hans Zimmer, James Cameron, Danny Elfman, Marco Beltrami, Jon Burlingame, Leonard Maltin

Jarabi -Sona Jobarteh

BBC News Africa | 5 mins

Sona Jobarteh hails from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players; her grandfather was the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh. Creating her own history, she has broken from the male-dominated kora tradition to become the family's first female virtuoso of the instrument. Here Sona Jobarteh performs the traditional Malian song, Jarabi, accompanied by Femi Temowo on guitar and percussionist Robert Fordjour.

Ellen Fullman: 'Long String Instrument'

Raw Footage | 9 min | 1984

Like Bertoia and Eastley, Fullman started out as a sculptor, gradually got interested in constructing sound-making objects, and finally graduated to instrument invention. She has dedicated much of her artistic life to the Long String Instrument, a physically imposing device with 53-foot-long strings that takes several days to set up in a performance space. Later incarnations of the Long String Instrument expanded to 100 foot strings. Unlike Mr and Mrs Lasry with the Cristal Baschet, Fulman doesn’t use water to keep her fingers slippery but coats both her hands and the strings with rosin. Waxed up, she strokes the strings between her fingertips, coaxing out gorgeous hovering tones as extended as the filaments themselves. The timbre sometimes recalls the viola or the church organ but the notes are so stretched out it feels almost like a synthesizer sound. In one interview, Fullman described playing the Long String Instrument as “an ecstatic feeling, a floating sensation. Music is bigger than me: there are pitch relationships, shapes of notes beautiful beyond the level of human expression. I like that feeling of being a conduit.” This enjoyably amateurish local news item from an Austin, Texas TV station also showcases another of Fullman’s inventions, a water-drip drum.

- Simon Reynolds

Music from Bamboo, Music of Vietnam | The Bamboo Ensemble Suc Song Moi

TEDx | 2017 | 12 mins

Listen to the beautiful sounds of Vietnam's only ensemble that performs its repertoire purely with bamboo music instruments.

1st song: Diễm Xưa | Trịnh Công Sơn
2nd song: Turkish March | Mozart

Suc Song Moi (The New Vitality) is the only bamboo ensemble in Vietnam that performs its symphonically orchestrated repertoire purely with bamboo music instruments. It was established in 2013 by the young conductor Dong Quang Vinh – the principle conductor of the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet & Hanoi Voices Choir, who had been trained for 9 years in Shanghai Conservatory of Music – China. The Ensemble’s music instruments were all made from bamboo by Artist Dong Van Minh (father of Dong Quang Vinh) – a prominent bamboo music maestro and its reperoire, includes Vietnamese folk music and world’s academic classical masterpieces by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Offenbach, Elgar etc., were all orchestrated by Dong Quang Vinh himself. Inherited the passion for academic music from his father, combined with the unfettered mind of a young professional, Vinh set up the Bamboo Ensemble with an ambition to bring academic music closer to the young generation in his unique and original style.