MetaFilter posts tagged with water and music

"The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers. / The water is held in its arms / And the sky is held in the water."

Rory Marinich — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:03:06 -0800

Three Nightsongs is a lovely choral work by Joshua Shank that puts three writings by the child-poet Hilda Conkling to music: Evening, Moon Song, and Water.

Beasties Boy Made Good

Cochise — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:54:31 -0800

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (that's MCA to you) says you got to fight for your right... to make movies? Yauch has finally stepped out of Nathaniel Hornblower's shadow and started making movies for himself.

Pondering recurring themes in music and music videos for your viewing pleasure.

haunted by Leonard Cohen — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:17:51 -0800

I was taking a shower and thinking about all of the music videos that include water/liquid in them. It is an overused theme according to this site, and I agree. I have included some painful ones to make my point. But wait, I stumbled upon this and was mildy turned-on in some strange way. God help me. Then my mind moved to a friend of mine who was obsessed with J o h n ny songs. There are quite a few of those too as you may well imagine... Full disclosure: my son's name is John. My favorite Waterboy. My favorite Johnny. And because someone has already done the work for me I present this website of Johnny lyrics. Due diligence: Previously mentioned water and previously mentioned Johnny's

Stainless Steel Ondine

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:18:18 -0800

Steve Mann's hydraulophone with sculpture gallery and performance video snippets: [1] [2] [3]

Hermeto Pascoal's Música da Lagoa

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:09:35 -0800

You folks out there in MeFi Town been keeping up with the water themed MeFi Music Challenge? There's been some mighty fine uploads for you to check out! But if there was ever a piece of music deserving the water tag, it's this drenching wet masterpiece by Brazil's brilliant, eccentric musical genius Hermeto Pascual, in which Hermeto and his band play bottles full of water, and flutes full of water, and, well, the lake. Música da Lagoa: water music at its very best. And its very wettest. [more inside]

How poeple and animals use sound in the sea

persona non grata — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:35:54 -0800

How poeple and animals use sound in the sea

Water drums and rainforest music.

nickyskye — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:54:05 -0800

Afro-Celtic music inspired by the Baka, pygmies living in the Central African rainforest of Cameroon. Rivers running through the rainforest are one of the alluring Bakas' favorite instruments, the water drum. Highly inventive and constantly changing, the vocal polyphony and the polyrhythmic sounds of hands and drums are prodigious achievements which astonish modern composers. There are various albums.

Glastonbury is wet

Mwongozi — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:44:45 -0800

Glastonbury this year is a bit wet