Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Radiohead held an online contest to remix “Nude” from their album - “In Rainbows” This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that’s played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It’s pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from “Nude” thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) “Big Ideas: Don’t get any” I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
And then lish said:
that’s incredible.
incredible.
And then Dan said:So did this win?
And then tom said:no idea
And then lish said:No, it was submitted too late.
The winner was Radiohead’s digital marketing consultant, who realised that there are actually more people making music on the web now than listening to it, especially amongst Radiohead fans, so decided that the best way to make money out of the single was to cut it up and sell it in individual pieces.
I wonder if any non-music-making Radiohead fan is remotely interested in the results/entries? (except for this exceptional result)
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