I'm having trouble being coherent about this gorgeous thing

[tzikeh]

So I'll be glib and shallow and derivative instead.

1) Betsy Alexander, a piano teacher in Pennsylvania, discovers that her cat Nora enjoys pressing piano keys with her paws (and, occasionally, her face) to "play" music.

2) As it is now compulsory to post videos on YouTube if you have cute cat who does a cute thing, Alexander does so.

3) Mindaugas Piečaitis, a composer in Lithuania, sees Nora on YouTube.

4) Piečaitis contacts Betsy with an idea: he wants to edit together pieces of the videos, and then compose a concerto in which Nora would solo on the piano via video projection on a screen above a live orchestra.

5) ART HAPPENS.

This? Right here? Is the quintessential example of internet awesomeness.

(Video link from kirbyfest)

Comments

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Cats need opposable thumbs, why?

They keep this up, we'll give up the idea of ever getting out of indentured servatude.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

it's really just damned amazing.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, the orchestra is silently plotting someone's demise.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHHA. It's actually gotten pretty good reviews! From real music reviewers and everything!

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Hey, I thought the Lord of the Rings Symphony was pretty awesome, but I know there were violin players thinking "I went to fucking Julliard. I had the second chair assassinated. And I'm playing for goddamn elves."

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can't remember the last time I laughed this much! I mean, it's all really beautiful and the Catcerto is a fab idea, but - the slideshow of the cat! With all those glamour shots of her at the piano! Looking PENSIVE AND ARTSY enough to play the Carnegie freakin' Hall! *dies*

(Er, I come from a family of musicians; and for as long as he lives, my father will never forgive me for abandoning piano lessons when I was 11. This is why the Nora phenomenon is just... unspeakably hilarious to me.)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is FANTASTIC. Quite an improvement on Keyboard Kitty! :-)

[aurora]

Coooooooooooool!!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I love the world. (: