Gotye - Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra

A full list of links to the original videos is available here:
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http://bit.ly/NsKnfw

Reluctant as I am to add to the mountain of interpretations of Somebody That I Used To Know seemingly taking over their own area of the internet, I couldn't resist the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered.



I was directly inspired here by Kutiman's Thru-You project:

‪http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs...‬

Wonderful stuff!



Thankyou to everyone who has responded to Somebody That I Used To Know via YouTube. It's truly amazing!

All audio and video in Somebodies is from the YouTube user videos featured, each of them a cover or parody of Somebody That I Used To Know. No extra sounds were added to the mix, but I used some EQ, filtering, pitch-shifting and time-stretching to make the music.



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I avoided using any existing remixes of the song, or any covers from tv talent shows.

As comprehensive and extensive as I tried to be with my downloading of source videos, I know there are many clips that I missed. Tay Zonday's cover for instance, no internet mashup should be without him.



I used KeepVid.com to download the YouTube videos, Ableton Live for audio stretching, pitch-shifting and the initial video editing, and Adobe's After Effects to put the final video together.



Big thanks to Travis Banko for assistance with downloading source videos, and to James Bryans for After Effects tutelage.



Thankyou to Barry for being Barry, and guiding us all.



Thanks to you for listening



Wally

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[bethanybgd]

I love pentatonix in there...

[mrawesomecoop]

3:51 - "This is ridiculous! Nobody can play a whole guitar by themselves!"

[redyrnogardash]

Now that is how you show appreciation to people who cover your songs. What an awesome mashup.

[jenirocksotb]

the original song is one of my favorites of my life.... now this is too... love it so much

[Dan Lewis]

Loved it - love the music video and this mash-up is awesome! i wish you well and look forward to the next original piece

[dinis viegas]

real art



[Io Kusanagi]

Fox Amoore @ 5:02. SO AWESOME!!!

[sptheonenesssp]

Feckin brilliant.

[Sharon Edmark]

THIS WAS SOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Briget Russell]

Love this.

[Angel Garcia]

Inspiring =)