recolouring black and white footage and adding cool sound effects for the sake of getting the attention of the audience is always problematic especially if you think for a second and realize that most of the footage here is taken out of context of what the man behind the camera wanted to show at the time of the recording..

Cool sound effects and *timeshift

>> ^yourhydra:
wow super catchy, Kanye should sign him

Why? So he can show Kanye what talent really is?

>> ^dag:
Very cool. Sounds like a vocoder.

Years of smoking crack will do that

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Very cool. Sounds like a vocoder.

>> ^legacy0100:
timpani isn't a very well constructed instrument now that I think about it. 3rd world drums play a much clearer, louder, deeper sounds than these behemoths. These bulbous cauldrons sound way too flat to say the least.
Perhaps because western orchestra's always been about the strings and the winds, and not so much on the percussions.


This isn't an example of a good timpani sound, or a particularly wise orchestration. It looks like a college recital, performed by a student who is still learning, so I wouldn't base your judgment of this instrument on one video.

There are many cool sounding low pitched ethnic drums, but none of them allow you to tune to a particular pitch on the fly. If you look closely, you'll see the performer adjusting a pedal - which tightens or loosens the head - at the base of these drums. A nice set of drums, played by a skilled player will give you a huge, clear awesome sound.

I'd recommend you check out a good recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Orff's Carmina Burana or Holst's Planets for a good idea of how Timpani are supposed to sound. You hear it quite a bit in film music too.

Percussion was underused in Western art music up until the 20th Century, so while most of the classical chestnuts only have a bit of perc here and there, you see quite a bit in music written over the last 100 years.

I arranged Bach's Passacaglia in Cm for Vibes, Marimba and Bass (with low C extention) for my junior recital, and it worked really well. I should dig that out and do it again somewhere.

Also dag, you are correct. Most of these people don't even have a reliable electricity delivery system. Why don't we help fix that problem first? Or an even more necessary fresh water delivery system. We are giving them "games" to play. These "laptops" are not much more than a souped up V-tek learning machine. Maybe I'm just more disgusted that people will ignore the root problems in this world because it's not as COOL as a laptop.

They are taking wealth from the middle class in this country and distributing it to the rest of the world all in the name of some cool sounding charity program. Meanwhile large corporations stand to make a profit somewhere in this scheme.

I feel bad for people who buy into hype - hook, line and sinker.

What the fuck would a lame little fuck-stick like yourself, know about alchemy??? Oh. Not a goddamn thing, just a "cool sounding" word, for a no-life, poor taste havin', livin' with yer strep-parent, motherfucker like yerself??

Look kid-come back for a group ass-lashing if you decide you wanna see some fun a community of folks, can have with a piss-ant like you seem to be...ta ta

Cool cool, sounds good. What else...

Facebook's got one from Vacationstogo.com

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Right you are Farhad. Great movie - I love how Miyazaki has always had a thread of green preservation in his flicks. This is, I think, his best movie, even though it came out way back in '87. It's also my kids' favorite. (Spirited Away is a bit too freaky for them).

They like to watch the DVD in the original Japanese, even though they don't understand much - because the voice actors are so much better, and the words are cool sounding.

kuro-kuro kurosuke, donguri etc.

greenskeepersmusic.com

Cool sound, talented band. Not all of their stuff is this creepy!

Ooh, yeah, I like that.

I have another suggestion, this one cosmetic: make little Google-style "stars" appear around a video (say, the vote total box, around or above/below), one star per instance of the video being "favourited". Feasible? Cool-sounding?

I just imagine a popular vid having a big vote count *and* a ring/row of stars on it, like medals on a Communist general's chest...