A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould

Cory Arcangel 

2007, 2:15 min, color, sound

Goldberg Variation #1 re-constructed with instrumental instructional videos downloaded from YouTube.

Drei Klavierstücke op. 11

Cory Arcangel 

2009, 15:58 min, color, sound

Arnold Schoenberg’s 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka Three Piano Pieces) made by editing together videos of cats playing pianos downloaded from the internet. When launched on YouTube, the videos spread to both animal blogs and classical music blogs, thus the work was both an experiment in...

Paganini Caprice No. 5

Cory Arcangel 

2011, 3:41 min, color, sound

Paganini's 5th Caprice reconstructed from several hundred instructional guitar YouTube videos