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The 239 Music performance & songs videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 6 intermediate, 231 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a music video. What they share is that the performance or the making of it is the thing being watched. Channels you will keep seeing include The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel, OK Go, Vic Firth.
J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Organist Hans-Andre Stamm performs Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, on the Trost organ in Waltershausen, Germany, an instrument from 1730.
Nanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak
A Capella Science parody of Camila Cabello's Havana, retold as a song about molecular machines and nanotechnology.
Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time
Vox breaks down how great rappers build rhymes, from Kurtis Blow's simple bars to Biggie's smooth flow and Kendrick Lamar's dense, fast delivery.
Lazerhawk ~ Redline Full Album
A full-album upload of Lazerhawk's debut synthwave album Redline, with the track list and timestamps in the description.
ZX Spectrum 1-bit music: Agent X (Tim Follin, 1985)
A recording from real hardware of Tim Follin's multichannel 1-bit music for Agent X on the ZX Spectrum.
Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
An amateur animation of Tom Lehrer's satirical song New Math, which pokes fun at 1960s math teaching and subtraction in base 8.
Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street
Stevie Wonder performs 'Superstition' on Sesame Street in 1973, with kids dancing along.
Razor1911
Razor 1911's eponymous demo celebrating 40 years of the group, which won first place at the Revision 2026 demo competition and the public's choice award.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
The official music video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt, from his American Recordings era, filmed late in his life.
電磁祭囃子 in NEO TOKYO 🏮
A short music video by the Japanese group Electronicos Fantasticos, led by Ei Wada, playing festival-style music on repurposed old electronics.
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons (Full Album)
A full-length album by The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, a dark, cinematic electronic jazz group.
Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi
Sam Aaron live codes an ambient electronic set using Sonic Pi, the music programming environment he created.
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Official Audio)
The official audio of Leonard Cohen's 'Everybody Knows' from the album I'm Your Man.
Pachelbel Rant
Comedian and cellist Rob Paravonian rants about having to play Pachelbel's Canon in D, and shows how many pop songs reuse its chord progression.
Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
A long live-coded DJ set in which Sam Aaron creates all the music in real time by writing code in his Sonic Pi system.
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
Tom Lehrer's satirical song about Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from the Nazi missile program to the US space program.
Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception)
Hans Zimmer's 'Time', the closing piece from the Inception soundtrack, set to a static image.
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
A recording of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No.
Dan Deacon - Bromst - In The Studio
A Pitchfork TV documentary following Dan Deacon in Montana as he finishes his album Bromst.
Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail
Benn Jordan argues that Spotify's business model undermines the music it sells, using streaming payout figures and the economics for artists and labels.
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken-word piece, in an official audio upload.
Microtonal Guitar (Fixed Fret) - Tolgahan Çoğulu
Tolgahan Cogulu demonstrates a fixed-fret microtonal guitar, playing music that uses notes between the usual twelve semitones.
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor on organ, shown with a Music Animation Machine bar-graph score instead of traditional notation.
Transport Tycoon 2014 Soundtrack (remaster with real instrument from original creator)
A complete remastered soundtrack for the Transport Tycoon 2014 mobile game, re-recorded with real instruments rather than the original MIDI.