plonq | Music in the air

There was a song floating on the wind when I got out of the car this morning. The music was very crisp, but at the same time not quite clear enough for me to make out who it was; it had a very full, Tom Cochrane-like sound to it. At first I thought that it must be coming from one of the other cars down the row from me in the parking deck, but the only other vehicle there at the time was an H2 at the end of the row, and it was dark and vacant. There was a brisk wind out of the north, and the music waxed and waned with the gusts, so I'm guessing that the source of the music was some way off. In any event it lent a surreal ambience to the otherwise cold, empty parking deck this morning.

It was a change from the usual music that serenades the city on cold, blustery days when the winds cut in from the north. (Which was actually playing today as well.) There are some light standards - or possibly flag poles - not far from the garage which emit a low, dissonent drone when the wind catches them just right. Their tuneless serenade changes pitch and volume with the wind, and echoes between the buildings in the area giving it an eery, hollow sound. It's like having an otherworldly soundtrack for my pre-dawn walk to work in the mornings.

This is a pretty catcy tune, all done with video spicing.

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His human beat box video is also very clever. It's done using the same splicing technique.