Smart videos for curious minds of all ages.
Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Bach, Grieg, and many more composers’ little heads can be seen in this Classical Music Mashup II by Grant Woolard, a follow up to his previous Classical Music Mashup.
This version layers 52 classical pieces from 31 composers in six minutes. How many do you recognize? There’s also a crowd-sourced song list.
Watch these next: Boomwhacker Bach: Prélude n°1 aux tubes musicaux and Oskar Fischinger’s Optical Poem.
Set to Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, one of the seven movements in Gustav Holst's 1916-ish orchestral suite entitled The Planets, Op. 32, this is what it's like for NASA's Juno spacecraft to zoom by the largest pla...
Three Line Riders sled, skid, and sail across a choreography of lines. Written between 1804 and 1808, the accompanying music is from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's '5th symphony'. It's "one of the best-k...
If you never thought you'd hear Pachelbel's Canon played on screaming yellow rubber chicken dog toys, you're in luck: Musician Eddy Chen of the Australian duo Two Set Violin squawks out the famous composition by compo...
Actors from the Italian theater company Ludovica Rambelli Teatro recreate paintings by Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, or, more accurately, they're recreating how Caravaggio created scenes to paint ...
Played with a reactive visualizer tool—a set up that mixes After Effects animations with a piano and LEDs that are connected "via Arduino to the piano's MIDI output"—Franz Liszt's La Campanella comes alive with light....
How well do you know your video game music? Do you think you can name all 46 of these classic Nintendo melodies? Click play on Grant Woolard's Nintendo Mashup and listen for tunes from Super Mario World, Pokemon, Metr...
"To create – to be creative – is to draw a door on the wall, and then open the door. 'Clair de lune' opens this door wide to transport us to a time where time doesn’t pass. That’s why we become children again when we ...
This visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy's best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer's Suite B...
Set to Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, three line riders from the popular online game of the same name sled over line after line, sometimes twisting, tossing, tumbling, and...
Moo like a cow. Squeak like a mouse. Chirp like a cricket. Trumpet like an elephant... all with a violin. Musician Sebastiaan Kulwanowski makes it look easy in this demonstration of nine animal sounds recreated with h...
