“All the sounds are the actual audio from the original video tape. No alteration has been made other than basic timeline editing. I can neither play drums nor the piano.”
So ends Lasse Gjertsen’s YouTube edited opus, ‘Amateur”- a video in which he creates a genuine song out of individual percussion beats, cymbal crashes, piano notes, and a few vocal hoots and hollers. Quickly getting traffic on the internet and being compared to the well viewed Michael Gondry video, Drumb and Drumber, which features loops of Gondry himself playing the drum parts and overlapping them, there’s a big difference here in that Gjersten literally cannot play any of the intsruments he’s using. Composed completely through the editing and fusing together of individual bang and bumps Gjersten’s video is impressive to say the least, and worth checking out.
Fans of this might also enjoy band Pomplamoose’s project of ‘Video Songs’ in which there are but two rules:
1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).
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