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A week ago Kutiman performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. YouTube invited him to play at the grand opening of YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video.
The lineup: OK Go, The LXD, Megan Washington, Jarbas Agnelli. And Kutiman.
Kutiman did a live mashup of Brahms' "Hungarian Dance #5" with a string quartet from Juilliard and players from the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Classical musicians accompanying webcam clips of strangers.
There was something in those next few moments, even though I was technically watching it on TV, when the reality of a string quartet performing Brahms live alongside Kutiman's webcam YouTube videospinning sank in. And I thought that this thing could just. not. happen. anywhere else BUT inside the heavily painted rotunda of the Guggenheim.
Kutiman Orchestra and DJ Shadow performing live in Ganei Hataarucha.
Can't believe I got to witness this!
Full circle. TechCrunch compared Thru You to Shadow's Endtroducing - both built entirely from samples. And now they're sharing a stage in Tel Aviv.
Edit: Found videos! Embedded below.
They did "The Mother of All Funk Chords" with Elran Dekel (of Funk'n'stein) on vocals and the brass section killing it (Shlomi Alon, Sefi Zisling, Yair Slutzki).
Karolina covered for Songdreamer performing "Just a Lady" live.
And the moment I've been waiting for: "I'm New"
I'm New LIVE
Read more →I saved my friends Dror and Lihi's son Zohar while we ran from a monster (as extras in Yoni Bloch's new music video @ 3:06).
Time Magazine named Thru You one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009.
It's on the list alongside NASA's Ares rockets, the AIDS vaccine, and (data) teleportation.
