🎡 Monthly Song Challenge 🎡

Day 7: A Song Featuring One or More String Instruments

Wintergatan. The Winter Street, Swedish for Milky Way.

First time I saw this video I was dumbstruck. I can't even fathom the amount of engineering, fine tuning, trial-and-error that goes into creating a completely new instrument, an automaton, from scratch.

I guess it's technically a string instrument?
The machine has cannibalized a bass guitar.

Wintergatan - Marble Machine

What is remarkable to me isn't The Machine -- lots of people make clockwork novelty instruments and make videos. What's remarkable to me is that the song is absolutely lovely.
 
Last edited:
Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

What is remarkable to me isn't The Machine -- lots of people make clockwork novelty instruments and make videos. What's remarkable to me is that the song is absolutely lovely.
If you check the how-it-works video, you can hear the difference between the room-mics and the line-audio from the instruments and how completely different they are, BUT that he managed to consciously incorporate some of the room-sounds into the song and made them feel like perfect pieces of the puzzle. Like the grinding gears, the spinning fly-wheel, the ratcheting of the conveyor belts...

Musically it's so damn pleasing πŸ’•
 
Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments
I mean... most bands feature a guitar or something like that somewhere.
This band brings a cello.
"Dirty Imbecile" - The Happy Fits
Day 7: A song featuring one or more string instruments

Guitar, drums, cello. And they rock it.

"Mary," The Happy Fits

I have not heard this band before. Thank you for making the introduction.

I like!
 
Day 7- A song that features one or more string instruments.
I'm taking the prompt pretty literally this time. I actually found this song by accident and loved it Featuring a one string guitar.

 
Day 8: A song featuring keyboard instruments

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Fanfare for the common man

Interviewer: I know your original work is just over three minutes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer have managed to turn it into a nine minute work.

Copland: (Laughs) Exactly, well, it's those six minutes in the middle...(laughs)

Truth!
 
Back
Top