The Build-a-Song
July 05, 2010
I love and admire pioneers like Reggie Watts, Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Theresa Andersson: artists who can build a song, right there in front of you. So, I wanted to try that. Here’s how it went.
Filmed at the UCB theater, Los Angeles. June 15, 2010.
Awesome clip! So freaking funny.
Hope you come play the NYC UCB sometime. ^_^
@Jordan D. White: Thanks Jordan! Hopefully soon…
Hilarious, made my day.
Mike, It was nice to meet you. I love Build a Song so much. It is mind blowing and it is one of the most artistic songs I have ever seen performed. Build a Song reminds me of a Hungarian film called Hukkle, which means hiccup in English. Hukkle is set in a small Hungarian village and the musical soundtrack of the film is of ants moving, birds flying, an old man hiccuping while sitting on a bench, just your ordinary sounds you would find in a Hungarian village. I love the idea of seeing the world as one beautiful soundtrack and even farts are beautiful too.
I am so glad I saw your performance in person. I truly love your work.
So who are you, anyway? Who’s playing the music?
Thank you so much for the free CD.
Totally amazing, so good
There is a guy who did this all the time in our student union. He was easily the best person who did music at lunch in the union. He did a really badass Mysterious Woods (from the legend of zelda) remix live doing this exact thing.
Such good stuff Mike. I’m loving surfing all your material right now. Work can wait.
i got here thanks to hardwicks book the nerdist way and i saw this and was blown a way by it awesomely good and funny