Shimon is a robot with four arms – but instead of using them to crush the life out of humans, all he wants to do is jam on the marimba! Judging by his head movements, this artificial intelligence is pretty into the music! You might ask: why does a marimba-playing robot need an anthropomorphic head to wave around anyway? […]
The concertina is a musical instrument especially associated with County Clare, where I live. It’s popular with kids, both boys and girls, and as the Fleadh Cheoil season approaches, many of them are practicing diligently for a summer of music! This video features my son’s teacher, Pádraig Rynne, playing with his band Notify, in the spectacularly sunning setting of Lettercollum Studios […]
If you’re old enough your first printer was probably a dot matrix one. Remember waiting for ages for those pages to print? Remember the noise? Well some creative types have managed to hack a dot matrix printer to play music and the result isn’t bad at all. Here’s a rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody as […]
Irish musician Dáithí has been getting a lot of attention for his latest track, Mary Keane’s Introduction, which samples an interview with his 90-year old grandmother, reminiscing about falling in love in her youth. Currently at Number 3 on the Spotify Viral 50 in Ireland, it’s sure to get more attention from today, with the release of this video […]
When you see this video by Enrique Iglesias you’ll want to play it again. It’s everything pop music should be: beautiful, sexy, fun – full of hooks and harmonies, rhythm and energy. You won’t be surprised it’s got over one billion views on YouTube, but you might also wonder why you haven’t heard of it before. Not […]
Featuring some of the guys from Top Secret Drum Corps, this advert from IKEA Switzerland will bring a whole new meaning to kitchen equipment The advert was produced by Swiss advertising agency Wirz.
View image | gettyimages.com French DJ and producer David Guetta recently claimed in a BBC interview that music piracy has helped him gain a following for his music, and sell more tickets for his shows. Now a survey by World Intellectual Property Review reveals a 50-50 split among respondents asked if they agree with his views. […]
May the Fourth be with You! It’s a long weekend here in Ireland as the May Bank Holiday marks the start of summer, though it’s not an old tradition: it only became a public holiday in 1994. So to kick off another lovely Irish summer (we live in hope) here’s something both traditional and new. Musician Quentin […]
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Somebody thought it was about time that the Mary Poppins’ song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” got a death metal version. The result is hilarious and well worth watching (and listening to):
