Jakob Trollback: Rethinking the music video

[crudhousefull]

The ultimate video to watch when you're stoned lol. He should have explained what's on this video's description. He wouldn't have gotten as many dislikes that way

[thesweetmolasses]

stupid shit.

[InfinityOE]

Can I ask, "what the hell is this?" Not in a rude way... In a "I have no idea what the point of this video, can somebody please explain?" way.

[colourfulwithaU]

Jakob trolled me, so I trolled him back.

[weswally1]

Hans Richter did similar work 80 years ago during the Dada movement.

[swingline]

Trollback is a genius, and huge contributor to the field of motion graphics and kinetic typography. I cant believe people attribute his work to the simple visualizations of basic media players. The directors of the TED conference dont just let anyone lecture after all.

[Cheepn1s]

Animation was decent and the song was actually pretty kickass.

This would sound much better live though. Just imagine that bass messing with your stomach...

[underbelly69]

personally i'm against software-controlled manipulation of visuals and text and ambience for ambience sake... screensavers are for when you're away from your desk

[papatoony]

That was boring...if they played videos like that on MTV I'd turn it off.

[mingleong]

the song itself was already boring

[aliendogbrain]

@mingleong I bought the LP in 1981... then later bought the CD in the 90s. To this day MYITBOG remains one of the greatest and most haunting works of all recording history. My wife says King Crimson is boring too, lol.

[aliendogbrain]

@aliendogbrain Ooops... MLITBOG I mean.

[samjackflash]

The song is from David Byrne's MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS.  The album is probably too experimental and avant-garde for most people but the whole album is mesmerizing from beginning to end. Ir is an acquired taste.

[Hamandchees3]

This is just windows media player

[Fantabulous666]

This is just plain terrible, the "song" makes it so completely unentertaining

[vijaymateti]

This would be great to integrate with visualisation of any media players where we can display lyrics parallel to the song ... can this be possible?

[luno44]

Windows Media Player currently looks at the file name of the song and searches for the cover album for you. There's nothing stoping it from finding the lyrics. WMP also has psychodelic-looking reactions based on what the music's doing. There's nothing stoping it from recognizing when the lyrics come.

There's nothing stoping it... that is... aside from the inventor of this getting his ass off the couch and inventing it.

[Stickstacks12]

weaksauce. this was the only bad TEDtalk I've seen...and I mean bad not just mediocre.

[JesusEinstein]

you probably have no soul.

[spiritualmonkey]

I think this is the first TED talk I've watched where my reaction was "Meh..."

[JesusEinstein]

you probably have no soul.

[takerdust]

booring, and I'm not easily bored

[JesusEinstein]

you probably have no soul.

[OtherVerse]

Based on this short clip, it appears that Jakob is ignoring the past 100 years of such experimentation.

For example:

Scriabin's color organ, Oskar Fischinger's abstract animations, and Microsoft's downloadable music visualizations.

What did Jakob contribute to this already-rich field? Something? Anything? It'd be interesting to see more of this talk, in order to get an answer to this question.

[AndromedasWake]

This really isn't particularly inspiring. Visualisers like Milkdrop for WinAmp are already highly adaptive to music, analysing the waveform and using mathematical algorithms to mesmerising effect. Adding the lyrics is not a huge step either, since they can be read, similar to a subtitle file for a film.

[hookah604]

saw better:D

[hookah604]

saw better:D

[celshader]

This would be good to run for a live concert

[jefboyardee]

How delightfully Eighties!