This is a Mike Oldfield video from 1975 and it might be the very first videosong. Ok, we can be sure that the audio hasn’t been recorded during the video shooting, but still, the concept of the vS is really here: the split screen and every instruments are shown. Wikipedia quote : A music video was made for this song, [...]
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Looking at a number of videoSongs, I came to realize that some videoSongers spend much more time on the video than on the music ! In creating a videoSong, the first step you go through when building your track is the audio. And, even if mixing is a complex procedure, it’s clear that pretty often the video is much [...]
The concept became famous around the world through Playing for Change and their superbly revisited “Stand by me”. This one is from Turkey and is a little more sophisticated. A traditional song that probably nobody has even heard of, a bunch of unknown people and some weird instruments… and yet, it’s terrific ! The melody is beautiful, the audio editing is smart and [...]
I discovered my first videoSong completely by chance. A little over a year ago, as I was hanging around on the web looking for some video demos of the ElectroHarmonix effect pedals, I stumbled upon this video. Drawn by the beautiful voice of the female singer, I did some querying and quickly discovered a band’s name: “Pomplamoose”. Then their video “Beat the horse” [...]
