The Friday Fillip

If you haven’t seen and heard Kutiman’s efforts, be prepared to be blown away.

Ophir Kutiel, his real name, is a 27-year-old Israeli musician who spent something like a month straight in his room/studio scanning YouTube for music videos that would lend themselves to being mixed together, layered, looped and generally mashed into a coherent, attractive — no, better: really good — piece of music. In that time he married many bits into seven songs, all of which you can hear (and see) at Thru-You.com.

For me, there’s a sense of joy here that is completely infectious. All seven songs have found their way into my iTunes library.

If you’re curious about Ophir and his process, you can start your investigation with his own “about” video. Then you can listen to him being interviewed by Norah Young on CBC’s Spark. You might also like to follow his links to the original YouTube videos to get a sense of his raw materials.

Welcome to the unexpected world of music.