Into the Depths of YouTube: Music and Art

Salvador Dali

 YouTube is not just for pet tricks, Palin-bashing and self-promotion.  Of course it's an incredible resource for the self-directed musicologist and music historian, but creative people are coming out of the woodwork and pushing it to a new level.  For example...
 
     There is an amazing  inner-world of YouTube videos that exist solely to combine great Music with great Art.   It has become a bit of an artform in itself, a sort of fine-art-world "remixing".  The music can open your mind to really seeing the artwork more clearly, and the visual art can shed great insights into the music, when it's done well.     I don't know where people find the time to do this, but one Italian "YouTube artist", shivabel, has nearly 600 of these music/art-pairings uploaded to the site, and they are generally brilliantly combined  - and there are many others doing similar projects.   But, as in wine and food, the pairings are a matter of personal taste. 
  It is an illuminating experience and a serious education to peruse these videos.  I post a few examples below as an easy introduction.  To find your own within YouTube, you can search for an artist's name or start out and search for "shivabel" (all samples below are his doing) and you will be tapped into an amazing world...

Salvador Dali  /  Brian Eno

Holbein  /  Tomaso da Celano

Roberto Kusterle  / Robert Fripp

Hieronymous Bosch  / Keith Jarrett