The Human Jukebox: Donations to street musicians, as votes

[Video Link] The latest musical video experiment from Joe Sabia and friends at CDZA: "Donations as votes. A fun and democratic way for street musicians to receive money."

Charles Yang on Violin. Michael Thurber on Bass. Eddie Barbash on Alto Saxophone.

Money was sent to Wingspan Arts, a non-profit that aims to expose diverse and young groups of people to the arts.

• [Zak McKracken]

  awww, too bad apparently noone gave them money to slow down until you can’t recognize the song anymore. That’s the most difficult one in my book.

• [Jonathan Roberts]

  That’s pretty awesome. One of the things I have to take away from that experiment though is that if you get into music, it has to be for the love of music and not as a way of getting rich quick.

  Edit: Of course the real experiment is getting viral online, which seems to be working very well.

• [toyg]

  Not the first “human jukebox” act ever, but still pretty awesome. Full of “easter eggs” too! 

• [Jonathan Roberts]

  I still feel the bass is a hugely underused instrument. If this group can bring it back to the mainstream, they have my eternal gratitude.

• [Eva Holtz]

  Wish there had been more bills, fewer coins.

• [Jeremy Oliver]

  I don’t usually clap when I’m home alone in front of a computer… well done.