The Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan now offers a course designed to help stu­dents turn their iPhones into musi­cal instru­ments. The video above shows footage from one of their prac­tice ses­sions held in Novem­ber. A final con­cert will be held on Decem­ber 9. You can read more about this project here. Also see Stan­ford stu­dents play­ing the iPhone here.

via TUAW.com

A quick free­bie men­tion: Amazon.com is cur­rent­ly giv­ing away $3 worth of MP3’s until Novem­ber 30th. That amounts essen­tial­ly to three free songs. Just click to this page, fol­low a few easy steps (includ­ing using the code code MP34FREE), and you’ll be on your way.

via Life­hack­er

We take you back to 1967, to the three-day Mon­terey Pop Fes­ti­val in Cal­i­for­nia, which was kind of a pre­cur­sor to the Wood­stock Fes­ti­val held in 1969. Mon­terey marked, among oth­er things, the first major Amer­i­can appear­ances by Jimi Hen­drix and The Who. Above, we give you Hen­drix cov­er­ing Bob Dylan’s anthem Like a Rolling Stone. And here, we have Wild Thing, which ends famous­ly in Hen­drix adding fire to his best imi­ta­tion of Pete Town­shend. Great vin­tage clips which you’ll find in our YouTube favorites.

It hap­pened 44 years ago. A 14-year-old Bea­t­les fan named Jer­ry Lev­i­tan man­aged to sneak into John Lennon’s Toron­to hotel room and asked for an inter­view. And he got one. Now, there’s a short ani­mat­ed film that brings that encounter back to life. I Met the Wal­rus was nom­i­nat­ed for the 2008 Acad­e­my Award for Ani­mat­ed Short. You’ll know why when you watch it. Anoth­er excel­lent find by Vick­ie.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

John Lennon’s Raw, Soul-Bar­ing Vocals From the Bea­t­les’ ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ (1969)

Get a Fly-on-the-Wall View of John Lennon Record­ing & Arrang­ing His Clas­sic Song, “Imag­ine” (1971)

Watch John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Two Appear­ances on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971 and 72

We gave you Tchaikovsky’s Voice Cap­tured on an Edi­son Cylin­der (1899) and James Joyce Read­ing from Finnegans Wake. And now, thanks to Robert, we let you lis­ten in on inter­views with two oth­er great com­posers — Arnold Schoen­berg (1874–1951) and Béla Bartók (1881–1945) record­ed in 1944.

This musi­cal bit is eas­i­er watched than described. Click through, start the 20 videos play­ing in any order/timing that you want, and see what you get. You can read the FAQ for the InB b 2.0 project here.

Thanks V for the tip!

Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890. Here you can lis­ten to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nut­crack­er, the 1812 Over­ture, etc.) and oth­er emi­nent musi­cians hav­ing some fun, record­ing their voic­es on a then new-fan­gled tech­nol­o­gy, the phono­graph cylin­der, invent­ed by Thomas Edi­son in 1877. To get a tran­script of what the friends had to say, you can read the tran­script after the jump. Thanks Mag­gie for this tip. (via Boing­Bo­ing)

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