Breaking glass with sound! (A little more scientific than Memorex, courtesy of MIT.)

Rubbing the rim of a wine glass with a wet finger will cause it to resonate at its resonant frequency. The glass is placed in front of a speaker playing a sine wave, created by the function generator, of this same frequency. When the amplitude is turned up, we can see by shining a strobe light at the glass that this resonant frequency causes it to oscillate. When the glass becomes too stressed, it will shatter, which we see very clearly on high speed video. 

(via MIT TechTV)

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From the Heart of Glass - Madmixmustang (Phillip Glass vs. Blondie remix)

It starts out a little rough, but by the end is actually very good.

(via wreckandsalvage)

Philip Glass advertising for Cutty Sark.

Too amazing not to post.

(via Mixed Meters)

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Nick Seaver: “Estefan on the Beach”

This is a cover I made of “Knee Play 1” from Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, using (almost) exclusively Gloria Estefan samples. The counting is, of course, from “1-2-3”, and the spoken word parts are from an interview with her I found on YouTube. (The only non-Estefan audio is the spoken-word counting in Spanish—I couldn’t find any clips of her saying numbers.)

Two little notes from production: There is no “eight” in the original Miami Sound Machine track without a beat behind it, so to make an acapella “eight,” I stitched together the “eh” from “seven” and the “eye” from “five.” It seems to work, especially with a little reverb to smudge everything around! Also, the spoken word, while different from the original “get some wind for the sailboat/these are the days my friends,” follows the same structure, so each “wind for the sailboat” is “and he was playing “Do the Hustle” on the accordion,” etc.

And the original, if you don’t already know it: