Diana
January 24th, 2009, 03:34 PM
Hi Friends,
This is so terrific I have to share it - Playing For Change: Song Around the World
Mark Johnson traveled all over the world with his recording equipment, recording street musicians playing the same songs, and then meshed each of them into one fantastic and inspiring tune. Just the feat of getting everyone to play it in the same key, in tune and in the same tempo is mind blowing. He also made a movie documenting the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjFnJuk1Aw&feature=channel
More information on this project, if you're interested:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/profile2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHU0BTGHe3g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEuggfL-u3k
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By the way, if you ever want to download a YouTube Video to keep on your computer, there's a nifty little free utility that will easily do it. After installing it, you just copy the URL to a box and click OK to start downloading. It saves the video in .FLV format, which is playable with VLC Media Player that some of use to play the PET video tutorials.
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Diana
This is so terrific I have to share it - Playing For Change: Song Around the World
Mark Johnson traveled all over the world with his recording equipment, recording street musicians playing the same songs, and then meshed each of them into one fantastic and inspiring tune. Just the feat of getting everyone to play it in the same key, in tune and in the same tempo is mind blowing. He also made a movie documenting the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjFnJuk1Aw&feature=channel
More information on this project, if you're interested:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/profile2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHU0BTGHe3g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEuggfL-u3k
* * * * * * * * * * * *
By the way, if you ever want to download a YouTube Video to keep on your computer, there's a nifty little free utility that will easily do it. After installing it, you just copy the URL to a box and click OK to start downloading. It saves the video in .FLV format, which is playable with VLC Media Player that some of use to play the PET video tutorials.
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Diana