What if you could record short video and sound clips of your everyday world and put it all together so you can make a new sound, or even make music?

MadPad is an app for the iPhone/iPad by Smule and the app description says ‘CREATE VIDEO SOUNDBOARDS FROM YOUR LIFE’.

Actually I did not know about this app until it was shown in class yesterday. Immediately, I recognized it because, although it was released in 2011 and MysteryGuitarMan (on YouTube) has already released something over a year ago, just last week a video called ‘Sampled Vancouver’ caught my attention.

‘Sampled Vancouver’ takes sounds from around the city (specifically, transportation) and remixes it into two songs. After seeing the MadPad app, I see that ‘Sampled Vancouver’ added an special touch to the video because it doesn’t make you look at the soundboard the whole time but transitions in and out of larger video clips. I found that both visually and aurally pleasing. People take the skytrain and the bus every day but never has ‘This train is for Waterfront’ sounded better than it did in this video.

Enjoy!

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