August 28 at 7:01pm

8-Bit Stop Motion Trip With Legos

Wow. Four things we like that taste great together. Don’t you just love putting stuff in a bowl and mixing different ingredients together and just experimenting what it might taste like? Well, this is not that, because they clearly knew what they were doing taking the 8 bit video game look, mixing in Legos and animation and backing it with some great computer generated music. Pure fun in our bowl.


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May 23 at 10:00am

Jam With An Awesome Band!

Iron Fred G-nose knows of The H2Y’s love of Daft Punk, the Bowl’s greatest techno band.  He served up the tools and Mr. M-nose took it higher.  

Want to play alongside the robot guys’ who get the whole world moving?  Here’s what you gotta do:
Step 1: Boot up the kickin’ keyboard synthesizer where you too can play the robot voices with a flick of a finger: http://www.najle.com/idaft/
Step 2: Open a new tab in that window on your browser.
Step 3: Open YouTube and find Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger”.  Load it.  Play.
Step 4: Shuttle back to the iDaft keyboard and play along.  You are now jamming!
We suggest to do it all standing up so you can dance along as you play, just like if you were wearing your robot suit too.

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March 14 at 10:14am

Making Music: Collaboration and The Mash Up

One of the great new music art forms of recent times is the mash-up, but it is a lot harder than it first sounds.  A mash-up is essentially of what was originally two or more songs or music tracks that have been mixed together.  It is one of the many ways to make something old new again.  You could say it is the cousin of the sample, which is exactly what it sounds like: a sample of one song used in another song, say just three drum beats or one phrase from the lyrics.

We sneezed three times in excitement when this video landed in our bowl.  From what we can tell, this musician both sampled and asked different people on YouTube to provide chords and beats and then he mixed them all together.  It’s like people of all ages from all over the world got together and jammed.  Regardless, it’s a great song that will make you want to shake your socks off!

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February 24 at 1:55pm

Rock The House!

Want to play the drums until the cows come home?  What’s the matter?  Don’t have your own drum kit?  Who needs reality when everything is now virtual?  Check out this virtual drum kit and get rocking!

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February 1 at 11:01am

Strange Musical Instruments #1: File Cabinet of Sound

I wish this instrument could fill a sixty story building with hundreds of gillions of drawers with each one being a different sound.  Think of symphony that a third grade class could engineer.  We particularly like the sound of “Wit’s End”; we know it well.

Hat tip to Dan McGuire

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September 9 at 10:14am

Alphabutt!

Twisted kids’ music by Kimya Dawson comes out today.  The parents will know her from doing songs for that movie Juno.  But you can still love her for songs with lyrics like: 

A is for Apple, B is for Butt, C is for Cat-butt, D is for Doo-Doo, E is for Elephant-butt, F is for Fart, G is for Gorilla-fart, H is for Hairy Gorilla-fart”
You can hear samples and have your parents order it here.

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