Experiments
Here in the Experiments area you'll find all the brow-furrowing, chin-stroking activities that The ECC has been up to. Mischievous MP3s, vituperous videos, cued and ready for instant consumption and sardonic satisfaction.
Note the categories to the left. If you want only music, click MP3s. If you want only videos, there's that too. You can also peek into our Testing Area to hear beta tests and unfinished experiments that we're playing around with. And if you're wondering just what the hell we were thinking when we made those experiments, you might find the answers in our blog. Recent additions to all four categories are listed below.
Sound Of Plaid Archive: St. Patrick McGoohan's Day
Tuesday, 18 March 2014 05:29
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2014.03.17: St. Patrick McGoohan's Day
Forget St. Patrick's Day, we're celebrating St. Patrick McGoohan's Day! The author of the cult TV series The Prisoner, Patrick "Number 6" McGoohan took a stand against conformity in this surreal allegory of a nameless spy kidnapped to a resort prison island. Today we hear music from the series plus music inspired by it, with ample discussion of the show's meaning and impact on today's culture.
Who is No. 1?
You are No. 6.
I am not a number...
I am a FREE MAN!
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Want more? Pop on over to The Sound Of Plaid archives where you can find over a hundred full episodes of our radio show, ready for you to download or listen to whenever you want. Free.
Live video of The ECC @ Red Devil Lounge, 02-Dec-08
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:38
Our performance at the Red Devil Lounge gave us a chance to really show off what the new VidiMasher 3000 is capable of. Luckily we talked Brooke Buchanan into shooting a little video, and it edited together nicely:
Sound Of Plaid Archive: Percussion
Monday, 10 March 2014 11:15
The Sound Of Plaid episode 2014.03.10: Percussion
Bang Boom Crash: PERCUSSION on this episode, ranging from the dreamy bowed gongs of the Nakatani Gong Orchestra through old choppy ECC cut-ups like the Ping-Pong Percussion Power Party to the all-out sounds of Crash Worship and Extra Action Marching Band!
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| Band: | Song: |
| Logic | It |
| Steriod Maximus | Life in the Greenhouse Effect |
| Let's Play Bongos | Insturctional |
| Crash Worship | Wild Mountain |
| Extra Action Marching Band | Guaguango |
| ELO | Drum Dreams |
| Esplendor Geometrico | Who's that Senorita? |
| The Evolution Control Committee | Percussion Test |
| Dean Elliot | Will You Still Be Mine? |
| Terry Snyder and The All Stars | Puttin' On The Ritz |
| Dean Elliot | Its All Right With Me |
| Terry Snyder and The All Stars | Binga Banga Bongo |
| Nakatani Gong Orchestra | Side A |
| The Evolution Control Committee | Ping Pong Percussion Power Party |
| The Evolution Control Committee | Big Band Percussion Cut-up Side 1 |
| David Carroll | Hell's Bells |
| The Evolution Control Committee | Big Band Percussion Cut-up Side 2 |
| Tatsuya Nakatani | Tin Types |
| Raymond Scott | The Rhythm Modulator |
| Some Eskimos | Inuit Throat Music |
| Moondog | What's the Most Exciting Thing |
| Moondog | All Is Loneliness |
| Moondog | Why Spend a Dark Night with Me? |
| Moondog | Coffee Beans |
| From Scratch | Out In |
| Stomu Yamash'Ta | Red Buddha |
Want more? Pop on over to The Sound Of Plaid archives where you can find over a hundred full episodes of our radio show, ready for you to download or listen to whenever you want. Free.
Microsoft Wrongsmith... I mean, Songsmith
Friday, 16 January 2009 22:12
Meme du jour: Microsoft Songsmith, the band-in-a-Windows-box software that creates music for whatever you sing. Actually, insert "cheesy" in front of "music" -- take a look at Microsoft's own cheesy commercial for the product and you're left wondering just who the indended market is for this thing. The results are nothing you'll be releasing on YouTube anytime soon. Or are they?
Some clever mashers figured out pretty quickly that a pop music vocal track can be fed into Songsmith, and -- er -- "something" will come out the other side. YouTube already has a number of these Songsmith Mashups, but we decided to just go straight for the jugular -- using Microsoft Songsmith on the Microsoft Songsmith commercial itself:
We couldn't resist putting together a few Songsmih Mashups of our own too:
- The Fat Boys
- Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
- Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time
- Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
- Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties
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