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The 239 Music performance & songs videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 6 intermediate, 231 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a music video. What they share is that the performance or the making of it is the thing being watched. Channels you will keep seeing include The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel, OK Go, Vic Firth.
OK Go – The One Moment – Official Video
OK Go's music video for The One Moment, in collaboration with Morton Salt.
How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
A short TED-Ed animated lesson by Anita Collins on what happens in the brain when people play a musical instrument.
One man band
A one-minute clip of Rochus Keller performing as a one-man band: slap bass with the left hand, Rhodes and lead guitar with the right, and drums with the feet.
Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of 8)
Lin-Manuel Miranda performs an early version of the Hamilton idea, then called "The Hamilton Mixtape", at the White House poetry and spoken word evening in May 2009.
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Live at San Quentin, 1969)
Johnny Cash's live performance of A Boy Named Sue at San Quentin in 1969, a comic country song about a man named Sue seeking revenge on his father.
Oscilloscope Music - Planets
Planets is a track from the audiovisual album Oscilloscope Music, in which the audio signal drives an analog oscilloscope directly.
David Hasselhoff - True Survivor (from Kung Fury)
The official music video for David Hasselhoff's synthwave track True Survivor, written for the film Kung Fury.
Insane Clown Posse - Miracles (Official Music Video)
The official music video for Insane Clown Posse's song Miracles, from the album Bang Pow Boom.
† Carpenter Brut † TURBO KILLER † Directed by Seth Ickerman † Official Video †
The official video for Carpenter Brut's Turbo Killer, directed by Seth Ickerman, with psychedelic 1980s-styled visuals set to rock-leaning synthwave.
Autechre - Gantz Graf (Official Music Video) 1080p HD
The official music video for Autechre's 'Gantz Graf', a dense, glitchy electronic track paired with abstract animated 3D visuals reportedly made by hand in 2002.
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
Alvin Lucier's 1969 minimalist piece in which a spoken text is repeatedly played back and re-recorded in a room until the room's resonances replace the words.
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Tom Lehrer's gallows-humor song about nuclear annihilation, in which everyone goes together when the bomb drops.
Redesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)
Neil Cicierega's parody song 'Redesign Your Logo', played over a live backing video with corporate PowerPoint visuals.
Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Official Video)
The official music video for Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, taken from Discovery.
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
A song by Pig With The Face Of A Boy that narrates the history of the Soviet Union from a worker's view, set to the Tetris melody.
"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com
'Pipe Dream' is the best-known piece from the first Animusic DVD, a computer-animated music video in which fantastical machines play music.
The Russians Are Coming
Val Bennett's reggae cover of Dave Brubeck's Take Five, titled The Russians Are Coming.
The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside
The Rubberbandits perform "Horse Outside", a comic Irish song about a horse waiting outside, from the RTE show Republic of Telly.
Mischa Maisky plays Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G (full)
A full performance by cellist Mischa Maisky of Bach's Cello Suite No.
Peter Mulvey Performs Vlad the Astrophysicist
Folk musician Peter Mulvey performs Vlad the Astrophysicist, a spoken-word style song that touches on why civilizations may never meet across space and time.
Hotline Miami Soundtrack (Full)
A full upload of the Hotline Miami game soundtrack, with tracklist timestamps, featuring synthwave and electronic artists such as Perturbator, M O O N and Jasper Byrne.
Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song Who's Next, about the spread of nuclear weapons, with a spoken introduction.
Afroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
Afroman's music video for a song about police damaging his door, built from home security footage of an officers' raid on his house.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Blu (Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Ryuichi Sakamoto's piece Blu, performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.