Body drum

If you don't have drum, it's good to have friends...



Poor guy! :)

Creepy V Live one man band, WEFT Radio, in Champign Illinois.

This is the new wave of punk...?



It's sounded better then a regular 4 piece punk band! :) Good work!

Tallan "T man" Latz Worlds Youngest Blues Guitarist

Tallan Noble Latz (aka: The T-Man) was born on September 22, 1999 to Carl and Doris Latz. Tallan had an immediate connection to the sound of music and how it effected his emotions. He seemed to be born to play music and has been doing so for most of his life.



Tallan received his first musical instrument, a drum set, when he was 3. At age 4 he received a small acoustic guitar. He would strap that guitar on and play for anyone that would sit and listen.

At the age of 5 Tallan asked for an electric guitar for Easter after watching a video of Joe Satriani. He had his choice between a guitar, a remote control boat or a new bike. He chose the guitar. The stipulation was that if he got the guitar he must take lessons and practice. He has done both every since and has never looked back!

Tallan has a real determination to improve his guitar playing skills. Tallan practices 2 - 3+ hours a day. Tallan has studied with many accomplished teachers, he also watches numerous instructional DVD’s and has become a student of his instrument. All the while he’s working towards becoming one of the best.

Tallan loves playing his guitar; he’s played before small groups of 15 to huge crowds of a couple thousand. Tallan has already performed at dozens of venues and festivals. He has had the opportunity to share the stage with hundreds of different musicians, some local musician, some regionally known, some nationally known and still others that are internationally known, all before the age of 8. You can find more about where and with whom Tallan has played with here.

In just a few short months, Tallan has created a huge stir in the SE WI and Northern IL. The buzz is all about this little kid playing with the big boys. They are all saying the same thing “You gotta see this!!!”.

Tallan has many musical influences that range across many genres of music from classical music to classic rock and from blues to country. Tallan’s list is an endless list but some of his major influences that he came up with are: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, BB King, Buddy Guy, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Steve Miller, Eric Johnson, Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, Derek Trucks, Rush, Keith Urban, Craig Young, Collective Soul, Bach, Beethoven and the list goes on and on.



Tallan already has endorsement deals with these companies: Curt Mangan Strings, Morley Guitar pedals, Laney Amps and Dean Guitars. More endorsements are in the works right now.

Just recently, before his 8th birthday, Tallan has formed a band with some seasoned music veterans from the area. The name of the band took on Tallan’s nickname and is called T-Man’s Blues Project. They are already taking the music community by storm.

Tallan has many exciting things that are in the works for the remainder of year including going into the studio to put together a CD and many other things that he’ll be announcing shortly. Some of these announcements are major things for an adult let alone a now 8 year old. (source: http://www.pbase.com/soulfulimpressions/tallan_latz).



You will be star...

Alibi Vs Rockefeller: Sexual Healing

Interesting coerography...






I'm healed now!

'One Man Band' by Kunal Sen

A music video for Kunal Sen's song 'The Crazy Dice' which invloves a combination of real time staging and compositing. Inspired by Michel Gondry, this piece was recorded and the video shot and composited in the span of 10 days.



"The first part was recording the song, then i did a rough layout sketch/animatic to time out the various actions. The projected video was shot and edited... And then, the actual shoot, which was shot 3 times (from the same camera angle) and the final image stitched together on Combustion. That was the tricky part, and the most work!!!"

Dude, congratulations...

Professor Gizmo one-man-band (Gary A. Krueger)

Most people look at this man with admiration, some see him as trivial or even silly. I know that without men like this a lot of very personal, and amazing music would not be heard. Too many people are caught up in perfection to hear peoples soul anymore. I for one love this and any kind of new thing im graced enough to hear. Congrats to real people.



Professor Gizmo one-man-band plays The Saint Louis Blues on The Lonesome Pine Special, "One Man Band Spectacular" 1991.



Professor Gizmo at the solano stroll 2007, Berkeley, ca. Playing "The stars and stripes forever", otherwise known as "Be kind to your web-footed friends".



The Tiger Rag:

Gary A. Krueger has taught Science in Appleton, Wisconsin since 1968. In 1985 Gary received the Wisconsin D.P.I. Award of Excellence for District Middle School Teacher of the Year and in 1987 received the Appleton Area School District, Mielke Award for Secondary Educator of The Year and in 1993 received the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Regional Award for Excellence in Education. In 1996 the Kings Daughters awarded Gary the Appleton North High School Educator of the year. The student body of North High School also selected Gary for the "Educator Of The Year" award in 1997. He has been on the Board of Directors and has served as president of the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers. Gary has also been a staff member for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction at Science World from 1990-1999. Professor Gizmo was developed as a science outreach program to fulfill a requirement for the Science World experience in 1989. Gary, as Professor Gizmo, has presented his science program to thousands in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, California, New Jersey, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado and Wyoming. Gary loves performing as Professor Gizmo and especially enjoys the interaction with the audience.

The Last Duet on Earth

In the future, music will be the only thing that matters anymore...



Poor zombies... Why did you kill them?

Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck on June 30, 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish guitar virtuoso, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions. Four of his albums from 1984 to 1988, Rising Force, Marching Out, Trilogy, and Odyssey, ranked in the top 100 for sales.



Malmsteen was born on June 30, 1963, as the first child of a musically talented family in Stockholm, Sweden. At age seven, he saw a television news report on the death of Jimi Hendrix. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Malmsteen was born". At the age of 10 he took his mother's maiden name Malmsten as his surname, slightly changed it to Malmsteen, and Anglicised his given name Yngve to "Yngwie". Malmsteen was a teenager when he first encountered the music of the 19th century violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical music influence.

Black star (live in Brazil, 1998)



The japanese orchestra plays the Black star... Malmsteen wrote everything for the whole orchestra.



Through his emulation of Paganini concerto pieces on guitar, Malmsteen developed a prodigious technical fluency. Malmsteen's guitar style include a wide, violin-like vibrato inspired by classical violinists, and use of such minor scales as the Harmonic minor, and minor modes such as Phrygian, and Aeolian.



Malmsteen also cites Brian May of Queen, Steve Hackett of Genesis, Uli Jon Roth, and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple as influences.

Rising Force won the Guitar Player Magazine's award for Best Rock Album and was also nominated for a Grammy for 'Best Rock Instrumental', achieving #60 on the Billboard album chart. Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (as his band was thereafter known) next released Marching Out (1985).

That year, Malmsteen was in a serious car accident, smashing his Jaguar XKE into a tree and putting him in a coma for a week. Nerve damage to his right hand was reported. During his time in the hospital, Malmsteen's mother died from cancer. In the summer of 1988 he released his fourth album, Odyssey. Odyssey would be his biggest hit album, mainly because of its first single "Heaven Tonight". Shows in Russia during the Odyssey tour were recorded, and released in 1989 as his fifth album Trial By Fire: Live in Leningrad. The concert in Leningrad was the largest ever by a western artist in the Soviet Union.

Malmsteen's "Neo-classical" style of metal became moderately popular during the mid 1980s, with contemporaries such as Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Marty Friedman, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore becoming prominent. MacAlpine came to the neoclassical/shred field by applying his classical piano training to his guitar playing and Moore arrived at a similar style because he shared Malmsteen's major influences. In late 1988, Malmsteen's signature Fender Stratocaster guitar was released, making him and Eric Clapton the first artists to be honoured by Fender.

In the early 1990s Malmsteen released the albums Eclipse (1990), The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection (1991), Fire and Ice (1992) and The Seventh Sign (1994). Despite his early success, and continuous success in Europe and Asia, by the early 1990s 1980s heavy metal styles such as neoclassical metal and lengthy, virtuostic shred guitar solos had become unfashionable in the US.

In the 1990s, Malmsteen continued to record and release albums under the Japanese record label Pony Canyon, and maintained a devoted following from some fans in Europe and Japan, and to a lesser extent in the USA. In 2000, he once again acquired a contract with a US record label, Spitfire, and released his 1990s catalog into the US market for the first time, including what he regards as his masterpiece, Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra, recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. In 1993, Malmsteen's mother-in-law, who was opposed to his engagement with her daughter, had him arrested for threatening her with a shotgun and holding her daughter against her will. The charges against Malmsteen were dropped when he denied the incident.

After the release of War to End All Wars in 2000, singer Mark Boals left the band. Malmsteen went on tour with former Ark vocalist Jorn Lande. Due to various tensions on tour, Jorn left before the recording of Malmsteen's next album, Attack!!. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Doogie White. White's vocals were well received by fans. In 2003, Malmsteen joined Joe Satriani and Steve Vai as part of the G3 supergroup. Malmsteen made two guest appearances on keyboardist Derek Sherinian's albums Black Utopia (2003), and Blood of the Snake (2006) where Malmsteen is heard on the same tracks as Al Di Meola and Zakk Wylde.

Malmsteen released Unleash the Fury in 2005. He is married to April and has a son named Antonio after Antonio Vivaldi, and they live in Miami, Florida. A noted Ferrari enthusiast, he owned a black 1985 308 GTS for 18 years before selling it on eBay, and a red 1962 250 GTO. In the mid-2000s, he gave up smoking and drinking alcohol (date: April 2007). In 2007, Malmsteen was honoured in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II. Players can receive the "Yngwie Malmsteen" award by hitting 1000 or more notes in succession...

1 man, 22 instruments

This Swedish guy decided to make his own "one man band" version of the Irish song "Seven drunken nights" so he made it with a couple of different instruments to try to make different music styles on the same song.



It's out of tone, but great work!

Pianist animals

Nora was adopted as a kitten in 2004 from a cat shelter in Cherry Hill, NJ. Her parents, Betsy Alexander and Burnell Yow!, are artists and musicians who live in Philadelphia. As a kitten, Nora showed an immediate interest in the piano during Betsy's lessons with her many private students. One day Nora jumped up on the piano bench, sat in perfect posture with both paws on the keys, and began to play notes. She was just a year old. She has played almost every day since then, and loves to play duets with Betsy's students.



Cocker spaniel plays piano... Better than Mozart!



It's hard to teach a hamster using piano...

Interesting instruments: The hydraulophone

The term hydraulophone refers to a musical instrument that is played by direct physical contact with hydraulic fluid (typically water) in which sound is generated or affected hydraulically. Typically the sound is produced by the same hydraulic fluid that is in direct contact with the player's fingers.

Two people playing "House of the Rising Sun" on the hydraulophone (water pipe organ flute which is the fountain outside the Ontario Science Centre).



Ryan Janzen's Suite for Hydraulophone, Movement II, played in the Great Hall, as recorded by an underwater video camera (gets in close to the water sprays near the end)



Dangerous use of the hydraulophone... Playing the George Gershwin lullaby "Summertime", on hydraulophone, in a canoe :)



The invention of musical instruments that make sound from vibrating water has created a category of musical instruments that do not fit into any of the previously existing classification schemes. Therefore a physics-based organology was introduced, in which the top-level category is the state-of-matter of that which initially produces the sound in the instrument.

This system includes the possibility of instruments that make sound in all three states-of-matter: solid, liquid, and gas. A fourth category for instruments that make sound from high-energy states such as plasma, is also included.

The first three-categories of the Hornbostel Sachs system fall under the first category of the physical organology system, as they all produce sound from matter in its solid state.

This physical organology is as follows:

1 Gaiaphones (Earth/Solid), instruments in which the initial sound-production medium is by matter in its solid-state, e.g. the piano.
1.1 Chordophones: sound produced by solids that are essentially 1-dimensional (having a cross-section much smaller than their length, i.e. strings), e.g. violin, guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, etc.;
1.2 Membranophones: sound produced by solids that are essentially 2-dimensional (much thinner than their surface area) membranes, e.g. drums;
1.3 Idiophones: sound produced by bulk 3-dimensional solid matter, e.g. crystallophone, glass harmonica, xylophone, metallophone, etc., regardless of whether the instrument is operated underwater or in air;

2 Hydraulophones (Water/Liquid): sound produced by matter in its liquid state; instrument itself may be played underwater or played in a surrounding medium of air, with water supplied only to the internal workings of the instrument:

3 Aerophones (Air/Gas): sound produced by matter in its gaseous state, e.g. woodwind instruments and "brass" instruments;

4 Plasmaphones/Ionophones (Fire/Plasma): sound produced by matter in a high-energy state such as plasma, e.g. plasmaphone, etc.;

5 Quintephones (Quintessence/Idea): sound produced informatically, by electrical, optical, mechanical, or other computational/algorithmic means

Benediction song with Pastor Smith

I could feel the joy of the Lord here... :)



E. Dewey Smith, Jr. is the Senior Pastor/Teacher of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope, located in Decatur, Georgia. Prior to moving to Metro Atlanta, Pastor Smith served the Beulahland Bible Church in Macon, Georgia as Senior Pastor/Teacher.

E. Dewey Smith, Jr. commenced his preaching ministry at the tender age of seventeen and Pastoral ministry at nineteen. His first congregation grew from forty-eight to over 3000 members in thirteen years. After faithfully serving at Beulahland, God elevated Pastor Smith to become Pastor/Teacher of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope in December 2003. In just a short time, the church's membership has quadrupled and now exceeds 4000. As the Under-Shepherd of The Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church ~ The House of Hope, Smith is proud to follow in the footsteps of great Pastors and Preachers who preceded him, men such as: Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., Dr. Sandy F. Ray, and Dr. Hubert Floyd Shepherd.

Pastor Smith's television broadcasts are viewed by millions around the world weekly. He was selected the "Up and Coming Broadcaster of 2006" and "Most Inspirational Person of 2007" on the Streaming Faith Network. Smith's works have been published in "The African American Pulpit Journal" and he proudly serves on the Board of Directors of The Morehouse School of Religion (ITC), Atlanta, Georgia and The United Theological Seminary and Bible College, Monroe, Louisiana.

He is a real star of baptists: www.greatertravelersrest.org

Stefan Joubert

Great street performance by Stefan Joubert at Covent Garden (London)...



Stefan Joubert is an International World Class Musician, he has developed an extraordinary style of guitar playing, using both hands on the fingerboard similar to a keyboard player. This extraordinary kind of playing opens up a world of multi-dimensional guitar sound which makes the music sound as if there where 2 or 3 guitarists.



Another piece of this amazing musician....



I think he is World Class Touch Guitarist!

Hip Hop Violin - Paul Dateh and Inka One

Violin? Hip hop!



Originally, Paul Dateh was only supposed to be a violinist. Beginning his violin studies at the age of four, it seemed that Dateh’s future in the classical industry was set in stone. But, on his first day at The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, Dateh suddenly dropped his major in Violin Performance and enrolled in the Jazz Studies program instead. The move shocked his colleagues as it was hard to understand why anyone would walk away from fourteen years of classical training to begin learning an entirely new musical discipline. But, Dateh knew that he wanted to be more than just a classical musician; his goal was to become a musician, in every possible way.



Today, as a singer, an award-winning songwriter, and an instrumentalist, it would appear that Dateh is on track to achieving his goal. His work can be heard on releases by various artists within both mainstream and underground hip hop circles, and he can currently be seen performing throughout the United States with his band “The Live Movement”.

This is sparta!

Freakin' funny remakes of 300's nutorious line...



"This is Spartaaaaa!!!"



This is madness!!!

GAME OVER Project

GAME OVER is one of the art projects developed by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each "pixel" has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live".

Who does not remember TETRIS, one of the very first video games? Players had to pile up rudimentary geometric forms on top of each others, in tune with a little Russian music… The original theme of the game (1989, Game Boy):



TETRIS is the fourth video performance of the GAME OVER Project.

Well, the biggest ever game of human TETRIS has in fact taken place on November 24th 2007, as a pre-view of the festival "Les Urbaines", in Lausanne, Switzerland with 88 extras, 4,5 hours of shooting, and 880 pictures!



Who does not remember SPACE INVADERS, one of the very first video-games? With your spaceship, your task was to defend the Earth against squadrons of invaders coming from outer space...



On Saturday 24th June 2006, 67 people sat for almost 4 hours in the a theatre of the Espace Nuithonie. After they received colour t-shirts, they simulated the pixels of the game. For each of the 390 pictures, these human pixels moved or not, from one seat to another, following the specific rules they had been given according to their role (canon, spaceship, missile, bunker,...). All photographs were then put together into a short animation movie.

The SPACE INVADERS video was shown to the public of the Festival on June 29th and July 8th 2006. The audience could then discover a giant-sized game of SPACE INVADERS at human-scale.



Good work!

Dance of the boobs

I don't know the name of the band, but the klip is very interesting.

ReacTable

The reacTable is a round translucent table, used in a darkened room, and appears as a backlit display. By placing blocks called tangibles on the table, and interfacing with the visual display via the tangibles or fingertips, a virtual modular synthesizer is operated, creating music or sound effects.



There are various types of tangibles representing different modules of an analog sythesizer. Audio frequency VCOs, LFOs, VCFs, and sequencers are some of the commonly-used tangibles. There are also tangibles that affect other modules: one called radar is a periodic trigger, and another limits a VCO to the notes of a musical scale.

The table itself is the display. As a tangible is placed on the table, various animated symbols appear, such as waveforms, circles, circular grids, or sweeping lines. Some symbols merely show what the particular tangible is doing, others can be used by fingertip to control the respective module.



If a VCO tangible is placed on the table, a VCO module is added to the virtual synthesizer. In the display, a waveform will appear between the tangible and the "output" (a bright spot at the center of the table), and a circle appears around the tangible which allows fingertip control of the amplitude of the waveform. Additionally, in this example the tangible can be rotated by hand to change the frequency.

Placing a filter tangible between the VCO and the output causes the VCO's waveform to connect to the filter, and the filter waveform to connect to the output. If an LFO tangible is placed near the VCO, a waveform will then appear connecting those two, and the LFO will modulate the VCO.

The reacTable's main user interface consists of a translucent table. Underneath the table is situated a video camera, aimed at the underside of the table and inputing video to a personal computer. There is also a video projector under the table, also connected to the computer, projecting video onto the underside of the table top that can be seen from the upper side as well.

Placed onto the table are the tangibles that have fiducials attached to their underside which are seen through the table by the camera. Fiducials are printed black and white images, consisting of circles and dots in varying patterns, optimized for use by reacTIVision. reacTIVision then uses the fiducials to understand the function of a particular tangible.

Most of the tangibles are flat, with one fiducial on the underside. Some other tangibles are cubes, with fiducials attached to several sides, allowing those tangibles to serve multiple functions.

The video received from the video camera into the computer is processed by open-source computer vision software called reacTIVision originally developed by Ross Bencina and Martin Kaltenbrunner. reacTIVision detects cartesian and rotational placement of fiducials in video images, then outputs OpenSound Control messages for music synthesizer software, either using MIDI or a specially designed packet based network protocol TUIO. reacTivision also tracks fingertip placement.

reacTIVision also communicates to the TUI software that outputs to the video projector.

The reacTable has been presented and performed with at various festivals and conferences such as Ars Electronica, Sónar, NIME and SIGGRAPH.

Icelandic songstress Björk is perhaps the first musician outside of the select presentations and demonstrations to use a reacTable in live performance. Björk's 2007 world tour supporting her 2007 release Volta use the instrument in several songs including "Declare Independence"; Björk's live inaugural use of the instrument took place at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 27, 2007.

Microphone check. One,two...

The poor german guy didn't eat for 2 days :)



It's not fake... He did survive!

Electric Symphonic Choirs

A demo of text to vocal software(East West Symphonic Choirs) by Chris Brackenbury:



Is this the sad future of the symphonic choirs...?

Giga stars

Hyper talanted musicians...



Here's Mr. Herman's audition that made him qualify for that event. Madonna's song!



Mark sings Wes - Alane:



Translation of the dutch part: Thanks to EnigmaDrath!

First of all, he (Mark) was singing (what was according to him) an African song.
*sing song and does silly dance and cracks judges up*
Henk-Jan (HJ): Do you speak any African?
Mark: No, only this.
HJ: But you have no idea what you're singing about?
Mark: No. My parents are Dutch and we aren't negros (translates directly to "negers" in Dutch means the same, but isn't considered (that) offensive)

HJ (echoing the other judges' reactions): Really? I would never have guessed that (you aren't black) looking at you. And, if I may ask, what's wrong with your eyes?
Mark: Oh, I thought, you know, "dress to impress". Wear cool sunglasses. My mom (judge interrupts because he didn't hear him the first time; he used slang) said that I should wear an entire African outfit and rub myself brown (to resemble a black person, which would have made for even MORE comedy) but yeah.

HJ: Well, you have amused us tremendously, but you won't get any farther than this. Can I see your eyes, just once?
Mark shows eyes
There's some controversy that the woman judge says, upon seeing his eyes, "Nou ja, mongool" ("Yeah, well, Mongol"; Mongool is derogatory Dutch for a mentally retarded person), but she actually says "Nou ja, mag ook" ("Yeah, well, can too", or "It's permissible")

Bennie sings Bon Jovi - I'll be there for you:



Weird people at auditions of idols:



Good work :)

Macarron Chacarron

Good melody, great lyrics!



"...ooohuuu yehaaa ... sea.. sou.. jhonn macarron.. yeah macarron nooon
Chacarron, Chacaron, Chacarron, Chacarron, ualuealuealeuale ualuelaelaellalea, alsualsualualauusualulus, alsualsualualauusualulus

refrain:
Chacarron, Chacarron, aliluliron, Chacarron, Chacarron, aliluliron Chacarron, n', aliluliron, Chacarron, Chacarron, aliluliron

ualuealuealeuale ualuelaelaellalea, alsualsualualauusualulus alsualsualualauusualulus
ualuealuealeuale ualuelaelaellalea, alsualsualualauusualulus alsualsualualauusualulus..."

Macarron Chacarron (usually shortened to Chacarron) is a hit pseudo-Spanish-language song. The song is by two artists - Rodney Clark, known as "El Chombo" (The self titled ‘Godfather of the Reggaeton sound, best known for Lorna's 2003 worldwide hit "Papi Chulo") and Andy De La Cruz (also known as Andy Val Gourmet), both artists from Panama. The song has gained popularity on the Internet because of its nonsense lyrics (which despite sounding vaguely Spanish, are nothing but gibberish) and odd music video, with an excerpt featured on many sites. Andy’s mumbled vocals were originally laid down as a rough skit with a view to writing "proper" lyrics later but because many loved what he had recorded, they decided to keep the original version.

Since then many internet sites have juxtaposed the song with humorous videos of various figures and characters, such as Batman or Shrek. The most famous usage of the Macarron Chacarron audio track is called "Ualuealuealeuale", an onomatopoeia of the gibberish hook, and features various clips of Batman dancing and fighting.

Glass music

What is the good use of glasses?



Vera Meyer plays the Glass Harmonica in Harvard Square, Boston, July, 2005. The instrument, an invention of Benjamin Franklin, was quickly banned after its inception. It was said to provoke insanity. The unique harmonics have also been said to import theraputic powers. It is also known as the "Glass Armonica".



Professional concert played just on wine glasses. The instrument is called glass harp or musical glasses. Glass duo ensemble:



And the best glass musician, Hannah:

Pixar Musical Robots

Story with a moral...



Funny stuff.

99 words...

Interesting klip...



Uhh...

Wally Eastwood

Wally Eastwood began charming audiences at the age of 17. Born into a six-generation family of acrobatic trapeze artisits, it didnt take long before Wally decided to keep his feet on the ground. Yes, he was affraid of heights!



Wally has since won many international awards for his talents. After seeing a performance of Wally's in Las Vegas LA Dodgers Tommy Lasorda was quoted saying "WOW! you are the man with the fastest hands!" Performing in over 5 different contries Wally has become a versatile performer. He has starred in many of the top shows in Las Vegas and around the world. Wally's motivation for performing still lies in the audience interaction. he has a unique knack for charming and entertaining all types of audiences with his visual comedy, incredible mastery of juggling and his versatility of languages. To quote JERRY LEWIS : "He's the best, really he's really the best..." (from http://www.vtheshow.com/cast.htm)

I think the same: he is the best juggler!

Singing parrots

Beautiful voice :)



The following parrot called pancho:



Birds are cool!

Victor Wooten

Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964 ) is an electric bass player. He is highly regarded among his musical peers for his extraordinary technical virtuosity and his skills as musician and composer. Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player Magazine three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once.



He was born to a Virginia family and was taught by his older brother Regi to play bass at age two, and by age five Victor could hold simple bass lines and play gigs. The Wooten Brothers band (Regi, Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years in the 1970s around Williamsburg, Virginia as well as opening up for Curtis Mayfield and War. Victor also played bass in the country show at Busch Gardens before moving to Nashville. While in Virginia, Victor met his longtime wife, Holly.

After moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1988 Victor was immediately recruited by blues and soul singer Jonell Mosser. A year later he was hired by banjo maestro Béla Fleck, along with keyboardist and harmonica player Howard Levy and Victor's brother Roy Wooten (a.k.a. Future Man). Their group, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, became famous first by playing a mixture of jazz, funk, and bluegrass, then later becoming one of the most stylistically free-swinging bands of the modern era. (Levy eventually left the group and was replaced by saxophonist and horn virtuoso Jeff Coffin.)

Wooten has been a member of several fusion and progressive supergroups, including Bass Extremes (with Steve Bailey, Derico Watson and Oteil Burbridge), the Vital Tech Tones (with Scott Henderson and Steve Smith), the Indian jazz fusion guitarist Guitar Prasanna, and the "Extraction" trio (with Greg Howe and Dennis Chambers). He recorded with renowned Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster on her 2003 album Blueprint.

Victor currently tours with his solo group, and still with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He resides near Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and four children.

In Mid 2006, Victor Wooten teamed up with fellow bassist Steve Bailey and RBD Studios to create The Bass Vault. The Bass Vault is a membership based site that allows other musicians and fans to have exclusive access to content and live chats with various artists. Wooten and Bailey frequent the site and can often be found on Bass Vault live video chat. He was taught bass by Tyler Delaura.

Modern improvements in electric bass guitar construction, such as a lowered string "action" and additional strings, have brought the bass closer to the electric guitar, allowing new playing techniques that were essentially impossible on a bass in the 1970s. As a child, his older brother Regi helped him develop his double-thumbing technique to help imitate the basslines of such greats as Larry Graham. This technique, also utilized by such bassists as Marcus Miller (and Larry Graham too in "Release Yourself", 1974) uses the thumb to strike the string both downwards and upwards, similar to a guitar pick. Victor is also lauded for his Stanley Jordan-like two-handed tapping and "trademark" open-hammer-pluck technique. He utilizes all of these techniques to achieve an amazing array of sounds during live performance, from growling funk to machine-gun cascading arpeggios more reminiscent of Eddie Van Halen or Steve Vai.

Wooten is most often seen playing Fodera basses, of which he has a signature model. His most famous Fodera, a 1983 Monarch Deluxe which he refers to as "number 1", sports a Kahler Tremolo System model 2400 bridge. Fodera's "Yin Yang" basses (designed/created for Wooten) incorporate the Yin Yang symbol - which Wooten often uses in various media - as a main focal point of the top's design and construction. It is often mistakenly thought that the Yin Yang symbol is painted onto the bass, but in reality, the symbol is created from two pieces of naturally finished wood (Ebony and Holly, for example), seamlessly fitted together to create the Yin-Yang pattern.

Though Wooten's basses receive much attention, his most frequent and consistent response when asked by his fans about which bass is best, etc. ..., is that "the bass makes no music ... you do". He'll often go on to state that the most important features to look for in a bass are comfort and playability. During a question and answer session at a 1998 concert, Wooten stated that "If you take a newborn baby and put them on the instrument, they're going to get sounds out of it that I can't get out of it, so we're all the best." This philosophy seems closely related to another fundamental truth about Wooten's stated approach to and experience of bass and music in general, which is that music is a language. According to Wooten, when speaking or listening we don't focus on the mouth as it is forming words; similarly, when a musician is playing or performing the focus shouldn't be on the instrument.

As well as playing electric bass (both fretted and fretless), and the double bass, Victor also played the cello in high school. This is the instrument to which he attributes his musical training.

Guitar battle of Victor and Regi Wooten (he is Victor's brother):

Funny instruments: the daxophone

The daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel, is a custom made musical instrument of the friction idiophone category.



It consists of a thin wooden blade fixed in a wooden block (often attached to a tripod), which holds one or more contact microphones. Normally, it is played by bowing the free end, but it can also be struck or plucked, which propagates sound in the same way a ruler halfway off a table does. These vibrations then continue to the wooden-block bass, which in turn is amplified by the contact microphone(s) therein. A wide range of voice-like timbres can be produced, depending on the shape of the instrument, the type of wood, where it is bowed, and where along its length it is stopped with a separate block of wood (fretted on one side) called the "dax."



Reichel has documented the construction of the instrument in a way that a skilled woodworker could build his own. Plans are downloadable from his website, with the nice twist that a collection of proven shapes for the blade is delivered in the file format of a font, thus playing on Reichel's other profession as a typeface designer.



Daxophone is one of the stupidest instrument i have ever seen! Congratulations!

Michel Lauzière

Michel Lauzière is a Canadian comedian known for his bizarre visual standup acts. He began performing in 1989. Since then he has performed his one man show to an estimated 1 billion viewers on five continents.



He is a combination of inventor, acrobat, comedian and musician rolled into one charismatic "Master of unusual comedy". From entering his famous huge balloon to playing classical music with his unique horn suit, or playing popular themes with water guns, dishes or absolutely anything he can find, Michel Lauziere reveals some of the most original and unique sight gags ever performed.

He began his solo career in 1989, after working with a partner for a few years. Since then, he has performed in more than 45 countries, on the 5 continents. He has done TV shows, festivals, corporate events, commercials or one-man-shows in over 400 cities, including Hong-Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Lima, Bogota, Caracas, Mexico City, Miami, New-York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Paris, London, Rome, Milan, Monte-Carlo, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Marrakech, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Oslo, Innsbruck, Zurich, Vienna, Budapest, Athens, Dubai, Istanbul…

Michel Lauziere has presented his full show in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Japanese. Also, for TV appearances, he can perform short visual and musical numbers, learning just a few efficient punch lines in any language!

One famous performance was done for the Late Show with David Letterman. He rollerbladed through a closed street, playing Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor on tuned wine bottles. He also performed on the 2007 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

Stringfever, humour with great musical skills

Stringfever's show is a musical entertainment combining humour and audience interaction with great musical skills.

The history of music in 5 minutes:



Their very own version of Ravel's Bolero:



I congratulate that individual British string quartet on their interesting ideas!