Interesting videos about sounds and music

Wow! Mark me impressed ...😊

One of my best guitarist of jazz...

The "formidable" album is one of my best listening...

How was it with him on a human and artistic level , if you dare to give us your impressions ?

I studied guitar with Pat Martino while he was still living at his parent's house (after his recovery had begun) in 1988-89.

I studied guitar with Pat Martino while he was still living at his parent's house (after his recovery had begun) in 1988-89.

Having tried to copy it in the 60's I've always found the opening chord to The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" fascinating.

The following video sounds about right, but not certain if it's 100%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP6daMR7Dps

DeKay

@8th-note: Agreed, I have the Tom Dowd video on DVD. While his recorded sound quality isn’t in the top tier, he worked with producer Jerry Wexler on some of my favorite albums. They include all the recordings the two made in Muscle Shoals for Atlantic Records (Wexler was the in-house producer for the label)---Aretha, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, Otis Redding, as well as the Derek & The Dominos album. Dowd had earlier been the recording engineer on a great many early R & B hits of the 50’s and 60’s, artists like Ray Charles and a lot of the vocal R & B groups. And as if that isn’t enough, he recorded some of the Jazz greats like Coltrane, Monk, and Charlie Parker.

Hey,

I've posted here thread none answered about an experimental music.

Let me tell ya, if I had this VHC or DVD I would NEVER sell it and take it with me to bite dust!

https://youtu.be/nKPFggCNt_o?si=T9dBiD5E_c00MwTn

Interesting but i am not sure to understand clearly your point... But your youtube site seems very interesting ... The matter interest me a lot...And you seems to work hard on this matter.. 😊

My best to you...

Why non-audiophiles don't like hi-fi audio sound?

There are natural sounds (human voice, dog barking, baby crying, water flowing, etc.) and unnatural sounds. Human can’t hear a natural and unnatural sounds together simultaneously. If they are presented at the same time, the human ears must choose one of them. Audiophiles can switch back and forth (extremely fast) between natural and unnatural sounds due to years of practice with their audio systems. However, most people (non-audiophiles) ears are almost in natural sound mode.

In below video, if I didn’t say "hello", you could hear both (L & R) speakers fine with automatic audiophile’s ear adjustment. But saying "hello" (natural sound) holds your ears to stay in a natural sound mode and you are hearing what non-audiophiles hear.

The both speakers in videos were same sounding speakers. The right speaker is converted to a natural sound speaker by me. The left speaker is untouched. Almost all speakers (include $million speakers) in the world sound/behave like the left speaker.

Piano (Natural vs. Unnatural sound)

Orchestra (Natural vs. Un-natural sound)

Alex/Wavetouch

Why non-audiophiles don't like hi-fi audio sound?

There are natural sounds (human voice, dog barking, baby crying, water flowing, etc.) and unnatural sounds. Human can’t hear a natural and unnatural sounds together simultaneously. If they are presented at the same time, the human ears must choose one of them. Audiophiles can switch back and forth (extremely fast) between natural and unnatural sounds due to years of practice with their audio systems. However, most people (non-audiophiles) ears are almost in natural sound mode.

In below video, if I didn’t say "hello", you could hear both (L & R) speakers fine with automatic audiophile’s ear adjustment. But saying "hello" (natural sound) holds your ears to stay in a natural sound mode and you are hearing what non-audiophiles hear.

The both speakers in videos were same sounding speakers. The right speaker is converted to a natural sound speaker by me. The left speaker is untouched. Almost all speakers (include $million speakers) in the world sound/behave like the left speaker.

Piano (Natural vs. Unnatural sound)

Orchestra (Natural vs. Un-natural sound)

Alex/Wavetouch

Thanks to all ...Thanks for your participation 8th-note...

Interesting choice of alias...

I tought that it will be interesting to propose to all the best documentaries short or long about sounds acoustic , psycho-acoustics, music exceptional videos ...

But not our taste in music first  as in many other threads but first a CONTENT...Nobody care about other musical taste... But we all care about the reason why we love music and good sounds...And the neurophisiology of acoustic perception for example interest me a lot and any exceptional musician life or abilities or survival history ...Or any information about instruments design... Any explanation about not well known styles, genres...Or aspects of musical history...

Wow, great thread! This should be a sticky.

One of my favorites documentaries is Tom Dowd & the Language of Music.

Wow, great thread! This should be a sticky.

One of my favorites documentaries is Tom Dowd & the Language of Music.

Playing for Change - Peace Through Music (Awesome, inspiring)

John Monteleone - The Chisels are Calling (Legendary guitar Luthier)

Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man (Master Keyboardist)

@bdp24

The dense orchestration and vocal harmonies---along with the somewhat poor recorded sound quality---of The Beach Boy’s recording of the song prevent one from fully hearing and appreciating the very sophisticated composition of the song

Now when you hear it in Dolby Atmos, its stunning. Not just that track ether, the entire Beach Boy catalog in Dolby Atmos is like being in the studio.

See:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/beach-boys-pet-sounds-dolby-atmos/

and:

https://www.mixonline.com/business/the-beach-boys-begin-60th-anniversary-in-atmos

Thank you very much it seems fascinating!

For any poet words are mucic in itself, rythm , melody and harmony...

It is the reason why i admire and love Gesualdo and Monteverdi the geniuses who created opera by revealing the words potential rythms inflexions...Two unique composers because the music comes more from the "born again" words with their own music then putting music on ready made words...

Welcome here by the way...😊

Not a documentary, but an interesting interview by Terry Gross of a musician who lost his hearing (& nearly his life) in a terrorist train bombing. Over the course of his recovery, as he listened to recordings at volumes high enough that he could feel the words, he began writing songs, better than ever before. He once said, in an interview with Stu Nunnery (another musician who suffered catastrophic hearing loss), “That was when I became a songwriter. Really that is when I became an artist. Like I found words and texture. Sound is a texture.” Sam Baker NPR Fresh Air Interview

 

Not a documentary, but an interesting interview by Terry Gross of a musician who lost his hearing (& nearly his life) in a terrorist train bombing. Over the course of his recovery, as he listened to recordings at volumes high enough that he could feel the words, he began writing songs, better than ever before. He once said, in an interview with Stu Nunnery (another musician who suffered catastrophic hearing loss), “That was when I became a songwriter. Really that is when I became an artist. Like I found words and texture. Sound is a texture.”

Sam Baker NPR Fresh Air Interview

@mahgister (and all others interested), what makes the above video by Ben Shelton so interesting and valuable is this:

When discussing Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, it is always their vocal harmonies that is focused on. That is understandable, but it is imo a mistake. Vocal harmonies can make a mediocre chord progression sound more interesting, but as this video will make obvious, the chord structure of "God Only Knows" is anything but mediocre. That structure and composition (along with the vocal harmonies) are why Paul McCartney cites "GOK" as his favorite song ever written. Mine too).

The dense orchestration and vocal harmonies---along with the somewhat poor recorded sound quality---of The Beach Boy’s recording of the song prevent one from fully hearing and appreciating the very sophisticated composition of the song (which is contained in the piano chords). This video will make that composition more apparent. It is to the songs on The Beatles Rubber Soul album (which Brian took as a challenge to top) what chess is to checkers. The construction of the song---with the choice of very sophisticated chord progressions, modulations, and inversions---reveals Brian’s knowledge and understanding of music theory, which John, Paul, and George lacked. Still, they did pretty well without it. 😉

For another example of a Pop song with this level of songwriting quality, give a listen to "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted", a glorious song written by the Motown team of William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, and James Dean. The original recording was sung by Jimmy Ruffin, but Joan Osborne also does a killer version. The bass playing on the original is by the great James Jamerson, whom McCartney credits with opening his eyes to the employment of inversion in the playing of electric bass (which Jamerson does in this song). Ever wonder why McCartney suddenly got a LOT better as a bassist? It was the result of hearing Jamerson.

I suspect there are members now thinking "That’s nothing, listen to Steely Dan." Yep, the SD songwriters knew their music theory and wrote sophisticated compositions. But to my ears they use that knowledge not to move the listener emotionally, but rather intellectually. Brian’s songs aim at the heart, not the head.

Thanks very much.... It will be interesting...

My favorite documentary series is Classic Albums where they go and interview how classic albums we all know were created:

https://www.youtube.com/@classicalbums

My favorite documentary series is Classic Albums where they go and interview how classic albums we all know were created:

https://www.youtube.com/@classicalbums

Thanks very much....  I will see it...

Here’s a video wherein a musician sits at a piano, explaining and demonstrating the construction of Brian Wilson’s masterpiece of a song, "God Only Knows":

 

https://youtu.be/PjPN9zRUrgI?si=iUrEC88LWrxKw9EO&t=11

 

Here’s a video wherein a musician sits at a piano, explaining and demonstrating the construction of Brian Wilson’s masterpiece of a song, "God Only Knows":

https://youtu.be/PjPN9zRUrgI?si=iUrEC88LWrxKw9EO&t=11

Now if you dont know her listen to one of the greatest mind of his time : Hildegard of Bingen a true genius , in medecine, music, nature, prophecy and mysticism...

His music :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

Some explanation about his language :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tpCOEWX6U

In the ECM catalog a genius multi-inswtrumentist as Hildegard of Bingen did before him , invented his own language and sing only in this language : Stephen Micus...

I own all his albums, he plays all instruments and use only his voice for all parts ... ... As for Hildegard of Bingen i love , i like Micus ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P2ywlJ8j5A

I am interested in ancient instruments and old singing in old language...

Peter Pringle chanel is a treasyry of amazing discoveries.. He is a multi instrumentist linguist vocalist genius...

An exemple here and explore his channel and remind yourself of your last incarnations perhaps 😊:

He sing in sumerian on a reconstructed sumerian instrument...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPcB7NlI3fo

 I am interested by the power of harmonic chant and overtone singing too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9Qh709gas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak8N-izFCHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMlQ2OtZlY

Being a lover of Choral music i love particularly children chorus music...

But i am fascinated by bass voice and octavist voice...

What are they ?

The best explanation ever here from the elephant mouth :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B9LREuIa4I

here a compilation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWueUXhYzg

My favorite piano school is the russian one ...

This short video explain why :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PUYMM7HTB4

When i listened music all my life i was seeing geometrical pattern dynamically changing in my mind’s eyes...

I always thought that is was meaningless imagination...

I love Bach over any composer because his geometry was stunning for me...

It was not illusions at all...

Listen to this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsjV1gjBMbQ

Acoustics is geometry dynamics and fractals after all....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_dtcZP1EE

One of the great documentary in jazz history ...

It is about Chet Baker story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGeOZqvISk&t=3290s

My second documentary is about Pat Martino tumor recovery after the lost of his memory and even the lost of all his playing abilities and the story of his coming back...

Not only is this man a great guitarist , but a great man...

Unbelievable moving story :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuDSU9lQxw

My first video ...

It is about some aspect of the relation between microphones history   and music history...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTcnNWK2oxk