My name is Brian Whitman. I am a lapsed scientist and sound artist currently co-founder/CTO at The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company in Somerville, MA. As I work on various scaling and media search problems with detours into art projects I'll be posting details here in the hopes that I can learn from others. I'd always like to hear from you if you are working on similar things.
This is really amazing. It is Liz Mitchell (who later went on to be the lead singer of “Boney M” of all things) doing the classic “Motherless Child” on what looks to be a German pop TV programme in the early 70s. But the video appears to be an “amateur kinescope” that looks strangely digital, with frame cuts and tracking issues. The timing and quality is way off for this to be an actual kinescope, but maybe someone in Germany recorded this with a film camera pointed at their TV? Fits the music beautifully.
