General Music Chat

"Alizira" is pretty cool. Love the tone. Is that a Les Paul?


The visual on other one was a bit much on the ocular sockets. Are these some of the tunes you were working on before you disappeared last? Is all instrumental?

Interesting combination of clips that generator pulls up.
Here's one I did:
http://www.mvgen.com/watch.php?id=25467

The mvgen site has a thing that allows you to share the video on their youtube channel, but they don't give you the link (I haven't searched for it yet). Should be able to capture the video from it, I haven't tried that yet either.

Putting a video together form multiple clips can be a real PITA if you're tyring to make them relevant and synched to the song. I don't know how the mvgen algorithm works, but you enter in keywords (works better than loading in the full lyrics, I tried both with the same song), then it 'synchs' them.
I knew about the archives.org stuff, I spent hours there searching for stuff, its mostly black and white OLD stuff.

I've captured video from youtube and vimeo, and used pieces of them in my videos, but that's really 'stealing', no different than people taking your music from soundcloud and selling it. Except that I don't make any money on my videos! Total royalty money pulled in through CDBaby on my last album from videos - about a nickel!

Many people won't even listen to your CD, but they may watch a video on YouTube. You have to wear many hats to be a musician these days.

Very true. I posted both the videos I made using mvgen on my facebook profile to see if people preferred the 'all the lyrics' one or the 'keywords' one, and a reply came from a guy I've known for years - a musician, too - about the song itself, which he didn't even realize was on my last album. (thanks for the listen, Brian ... )