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La Blogotheque Take-Away Shows: Greatest Find in Recent Memory

Jason Chou — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:03:38 +0000

La Blogotheque is a french music blog. Don’t know much else about it because Google sucks at translating. The one part of the site that is offered in english, however, is the collection of video podcasts called the Take-Away Shows. Every week since 2006, the Take-Away Show producers have invited artists and bands to play in random public surroundings. The resulting product is spontaeous, beautiful, and awesome.

I haven’t been able to watch them all, but some of my favorites are the kooks, vampire weekend, and jason mraz (for the ladies). Finally, firstly, you must check out Priscilla Ahn because she is nuts good.

DJ MoCAP and the TRAKTOR controller

Jason Chou — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:02:04 +0000

This is some ridiculous stuff. DJ MoCAP developed a camera-based DJ system that allows you to turn any high contrast surface into a mixer. Presenting, the controller for the TRAKTOR Scratch DJ System.

Guitar Prodigy

Jason Chou — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:50:36 +0000

This kid is ridiculous.

11 years old. writes his own music. does some crazy “fingerstyle”(?) guitar playing. follow the link below to see more…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HuMRJtFX8o&feature=related

Listen/Watch: Naive New Beaters

Jason Chou — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:36:03 +0000

Don’t remember how I came across this band, but this music video is awesome and I’m starting to really like the song.

Naive New Beaters – “Live Good”

I want to go to Croatia

Jason Chou — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:49:39 +0000

Sea Organ is an architectural and experimental musical object located in Zadar, Croatia. Is a pipe organ that has a set of 35 musically tuned tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps played by the sea waves. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and depending on the size and force of the wave, it produces a somewhat random but harmonic sound. Designed by architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project.

via the pompomist

college recap: part VI

Jason Chou — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:36:49 +0000

Here we go. Last two recaps.

During the first few weeks of school, Penn’s 40 million a cappella groups had tryouts. Being a lover of singing and being a big loser, I tried out for 30 million. I managed to get callbacks to all 30 million, including Penn Masala, an all-indian group. (I also made callbacks for Penn Dhamaka, an all-indian male dancing group. Nice.) Finally after a painful two weeks, I received work that I made it into Chord on Blues, Counterparts, Off the Beat, and Pennsylvania-Six 5000. Of course, coming from a billion years of choir and of listening to college acappella, I flipped out about getting into Off the Beat and knew that was it for sure. However, after spending a week with both Penn-Six and Off the Beat, I realized how different things were from what I expected. I found myself enjoying my time at Penn-Six more and that Off the Beat, although dope, was not exactly what I wanted. So PennSix it is.

Last semester, we had our fall show which brought in about 700 people. We also had our 25th anniversary and 70+ alums actually returned for the festivities. It was pretty amazing to see all these people and actually hear them sing the songs that we listen to on old albums and meet the people behind the voices.

We had multiple gigs throughout the semester, and we went on a roadtrip to New York and Boston to sing for some rich Penn alum’s birthday.

With the birthday boy. From left to right: guy not in Penn-Six, Lix, Brock (me), Grubbs, Lechter, old man, Stan, Chex/Ward, Cletus, Lingus (on bended knee), Jiggy, Tiger Woods (Nigel).

Please note:

40 million = 12ish

30 million = 7

a billion = 11

700 = 700+

70+ = 70-

Penn-Six = worst group ever

ritards

Jason Chou — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:28:00 +0000

i have enough pictures and words about this event to warrant a new post.

on june 10th, my acapella group performed in our first single-act concert.
this group was formed 20 months ago and it’s crazy to believe that we made it this far. this is one of the ballsiest things I have ever accomplished. thank you to all of those who came to watch. hopefully you’ll be able to see more of us in the future.

dora is nice

sweet dreams

jerry’s a beast

john looks concerned

yess

pretty woman for steph

insomniac

kokomo

more pictures here

utah choir trip

Jason Chou — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:07:25 +0000

i would have posted sooner, but i had a couple tests i needed to fail first..

on thursday we left for utah. to sing.

we were told that we would be on good morning america…but it turned out that we were going to be on utah news (”most watched utah morning news!” yesss good MORMING!!!) so we woke up pretty early and sang on these steps. hint: gary jin, back row second from the right

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gary is too tall for this chair

ski jump ramp at the olympic park

choulai bobseld team
jamie dreams about killing people…with objects like pens. and when he describes his dreams he says creepy things like “and they just won’t die so i keep going”

yea irene…and jiang lao shi..

and of course no trip is complete without one stop at a giant hole in the ground…

came back on sunday just in time to fail school in every way possible and dream about going to the bathroom many times and waking up to realize that i really actually had to pee…