Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum

It looks like someone has posted a video of Cory Arcangel performing his "Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum" live on Youtube.

Cory, a Brooklyn based artist, one day noticed that only three tracks on Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" album are adorned with glockenspiel. He decided to right this wrong by recording additional glockenspiel parts for the six songs on the album that did not contain the instrument. A small run of the "Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum" was pressed on vinyl and contains only the glockenspiel parts. It is meant to be played concurrently with a copy of the original album. His site contains some background info and before/after mixes (link).

It vaguely reminds me of Redd Blood Cells (when the guy from Redd Kross decided to play bass along w/ the White Stripes, also in the name of art).

Update: In the comments Nicholas asks "Is there a longer history of people recording things meant to be played concordantly with something else?"

Comments

[Nicholas]

This reminds me of Mike Nelson's new project, making fun of popular movies by recording his sessions and only selling the recording, which is to be played while watching the movie. Is there a longer history of people recording things meant to be played concordantly with something else?

[Rex Carswell]

**Is there a longer history of people recording things meant to be played concordantly with something else?**

I heard if you play Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz it's really awesome.

[Paul]

Why is the god-damned glockenspiel so hip these days? I equate it with over-produced, over-wrought, usually-Canadian music. If I hear a glockenspiel it's an instant OFF from me.

[DJ Sarah Wilson]

"Is there a longer history of people recording things meant to be played concordantly with something else?"

My ex-boyfriend Twocsinak and I recently made a remix of the Bristol band Big Joan, using elements from their tracks "Here Comes The Flood" and "The Sucker's Bug". By merging their names we came up with "Here Comes The F**ker's Blood", and thus decided to make the remix perfectly accompany the Hancock's Half Hour episode "The Blood Donor". Each of Big Joan's original instruments was paired off with a character from the episode.

http://www.discogs.com/release/927133
www.bigjoan.com
www.myspace.com/twocsandsarah

I didn't mean for this to sound like an advert, but it kind of ended up that way. Sorry.

DJ Sarah Wilson xxx

[EmD]

There's the Andy Kaufman "Mighty Mouse" routine. And let's not forget this dude.

[Jellodyne]

Wizard People, Dear Readers as seen here http://www.illegal-art.org/video/wizard.html is a replacement soundtrack for the first Harry Potter movie. Of a similar bent, some folks in LA used to do a LIVE radio show where they replaced the soundtrack of the Star Trek show airing on a local TV station, called Simul Trek (http://thewildside.tv/twssimul.htm)