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Youtube With No Tube

codacorolla — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:37:30 -0800

YouTube free Jazz will create randomized sound collages from YouTube videos based on a keyword search. Some examples: free jazz, soundcheck, laughing baby, parakeets, dog says i love you.
_{Links can sometimes take a few seconds to load, depending on the search term used.}

This is the work of Dave Kraftsow (portfolio, previously).

By: multivalent

multivalent — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:58:09 -0800

So this accomplishes what that tabbed browsing and masochism can't?

By: davebush

davebush — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:11:37 -0800

This worked wonderfully.

By: Benjy

Benjy — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:32:38 -0800

Cats

By: lemuring

lemuring — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:43:42 -0800

free jizz porn tube? [SFW] There are actually some pretty phenomenal soundscapes you can create:

Elementary, My Dear Watson.

I see dead people

with strange requests.

By: AzraelBrown

AzraelBrown — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:48:50 -0800

I am so, so sorry...but cleanse your palate with a little Freebird. I tried to go to the concert, but my car won't start. It's probably the weather; I've had the NOAA radio on all day long - right after I got done watching the Smurfs and Seinfeld.

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:06:59 -0800

acapella rollercoaster slowed down 700 hellfire preaching amazing grace accoustic number station arrested development chicken dance I really like NOAA Radio and I See Dead People

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:12:07 -0800

I need/want more manual control, maybe just a list of text boxes where I can input direct URLs or something. I'm trying to get it to load videos from this post using B flat harmonics but it's not loading.

By: stonepharisee

stonepharisee — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:14:02 -0800

I love this. But yes, I want to fiddle with it too.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:14:45 -0800

Coil - The Snow EP

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:16:59 -0800

- Christopher Walken - Stairway to Heaven - Flight of the Bumblebee - ukulele girl

By: Calzephyr

Calzephyr — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:37:38 -0800

Wow, 10 seconds into the budgie link and the fids went nuts! Fun stuff!

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:43:43 -0800

- it's the end of the world as we know it - rap battle - John Cage 4 33

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:26:11 -0800

I call this one "meow cat"

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:30:28 -0800

Thank you very much. This one's called "cow goes moo" This thing's the best: audio collage by request!!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:38:43 -0800

Revolution 9

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:42:06 -0800

Bladerunner. For some reason it has banjos and drum-and-bass. And what sounded like an electric model plane or car.

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:51:25 -0800

robert frost design auden musee des beaux arts this is just to say william carlos williams alvin lucier i am sitting in a room gwendolyn brooks we real cool t.s. eliot the wasteland

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:56:50 -0800

That Bladerunner one is awesome. It probably has the DnB because the tears in the rain monologue is a staple in a lot of edm, for example. _{record scratch sound effect, get over here mortal kombat, virtual fireplace}

By: jeremias

jeremias — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:29:46 -0800

Mix pretty much anything with "didgeridoo" and it comes out nice . . . didgeridoo stunts didgeridoo transmission didgeridoo cars didgeridoo bees

By: ennui.bz

ennui.bz — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:57:49 -0800

bin laden timecube hussein

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:47:25 -0800

giggling giggling baby india mbila soukous It's different with each click on the same topic. What a fun invention! I love this. Thanks codacorolla.

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:55:22 -0800

I emailed Dave two questions about the work:

Do the colors of the circles have anything to do with the content of the audio samples? Is the searching algorithm only going by tags? Or is it also going by content in the comments / title / description, etc.?

And he emailed back an explanation:

Thanks for the post ... It looks like Pee-wee Herman--of all people--reads metafilter since he tweeted a link to the project right after you posted.. lol so great... Anyway in answer to your questions: The colors of the circles are completely random and are determined at the start of program. As may (or not) have been apparent, each circle represents one of the videos. The size of the circle is mapped to the volume of the audio track for that video. So the bigger the circle, the louder the track. The circles are coded to blend in such a way that they create new colors when they intersect, which is why the colors always appear to be changing. As far as the search algorithm goes, it's using a really simple youtube tag search.. I think! I actually made this project really fast as an afterthought to another thing I was working on and I forget exactly how I specified the search.. I don't think it searches the descriptions.. just tags and titles. I'm working right now on another (larger scoped) project involving audio collages that I hope to have launched soonish... hopefully within a month or two! I've had these collage ideas for a long time and have only recently started to finally sit down and try to make them.

He also shared this search, blade runner blues, based off the earlier link to bladerunner. I like it a lot.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:00:00 -0800

Temper/Tantrum It's like early Swans without the baseline. This is kinda col, but I wish it was drawing on public domain sounds. Or CC sounds.

By: stonepharisee

stonepharisee — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:03:04 -0800

giggle/yawn for your pleasure.

By: stonepharisee

stonepharisee — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:04:02 -0800

giggle/yawn (sorry, wrong link in the above).

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:32:56 -0800

this is awesome.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:43:48 -0800

It works really as well as a kind of bizarro pandora if you just enter in the names of artists you know you like. Autechre Amon Tobin

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:08:04 -0800

juv3nal: i've had good results with genre names, like ambient dub

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:10:08 -0800

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:18:45 -0800

MetaFilter: Pee Wee Herman—of all people—reads it.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:35:12 -0800

mathowie jessamyn cortex eponysterical

By: pmcp

pmcp — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:37:57 -0800

Oooh, this is fun: guitar tuning rollercoaster myna bird 200bpm self hypnosis gamelan played backwards granular synthesis metronome violin practice This one's like a bad trip. Or rather a bad film depicting a bad trip.

By: Theta States

Theta States — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:28:33 -0800

this is awesome.

By: RobotVoodooPower

RobotVoodooPower — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:35:45 -0800

Now I have a way to generate a bitchin' intro to *all* of my rap songs.

By: the sobsister

the sobsister — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:17:58 -0800

Is it me, or do many searches end up sounding like The Books?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:32:06 -0800

- astley - mesothelioma - scales

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:43:10 -0800

oh this is the best thing ever. meta-meta-youtube musickery: kutiman

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:23:45 -0800

Is it me, or do many searches end up sounding like The Books? And sometimes Venetian Snares.

By: speicus

speicus — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:15:25 -0800

Oh man, I really wish I could queue up "playlists" of search terms, I could listen to this all day and be SUPER PRODUCTIVE.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:20:10 -0800

I don't understand why modem sounds all Pachelbel. Digging the Indian voice over, though.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:25:23 -0800

Adding this in a second tab rounds things out nicely, though.

By: speicus

speicus — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:24:09 -0800

john zorn sounds, perhaps unsurprisingly, like john zorn

By: Theta States

Theta States — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:48:46 -0800

It looks like Pee-wee Herman--of all people--reads metafilter since he tweeted a link to the project right after you posted.. lol so great... This, too, is awesome. We love you Mr. Reubens!!!