Norwegian becomes stop-motion pop sensation
Here’s a composition tool I hadn’t considered: stop-motion video. Apparently that, and Fruity Loops, was how 22-year old Norwegian Lasse Gjertsen created the catchy tune that’s featured in Amateur, a viral-video hit — 1,707,174 hits and counting, in fact — on YouTube. And according to Gjertsen, he can’t play a note. Well, okay, he can play a note, but then he has to painstakingly cut it together with bunch of other individual notes in order to create a seamless song.
Link to the story on WSJ.com.
Link to Amateur video on YouTube. (Embedding YouTube videos is starting to take up too much real estate here, so I’ll refrain from doing that in this instance. Plus, YouTube encountered brief server issues this morning, which resulted in very slow loading of MF during that time.)
Via Slashdot.
Posted: December 12th, 2006 by madfac under music, pop culture.
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