In Andrew Huang’s new video, the hits just keep coming.
As do the household items he uses to perform them.
In a mind-blowing medley featuring a half-dozen songs — including Pharrell’s “Happy,” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off” — Huang sings along to his own musical accompaniment created on … things that aren’t actually musical instruments.
“Other than my voice,” the Toronto-based musician writes on YouTube, “the sounds you hear in this medley were produced using only the following things which I could find at my friend’s house while I was staying with him.”
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Beer bottle
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Shoes
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Couch cushion
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Trash can
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Soda bottle
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Frying pan
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Rubber band
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Bag of kale
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Office chair
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Pants zipper
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Car
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Spray bottle
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Water
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Mugs
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Glasses
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Spoons
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Candle holder
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Balloon
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Firewood
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Coffee machine
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Vacuum cleaner
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Faucet
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Salt shaker
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Soccer ball
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Pen
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Spatula
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Pot
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Forks
Watch by searching “Hits of 2014 — played with household items” at www.youtube.com.
Huang’s bio describes him as “a new media artist whose work is a distillation of his passions for music, video, and audience participation,” including something called the Song Challenge series “which invites viewers to dare him in feats of musicianship — he has performed a rap song in five languages, played the theme from ‘Breaking Bad’ using meth lab equipment, and even made a beat using a thousand pairs of pants.”
Recently, he recorded an out-of-this-world version of the Beatles’ “Across the Universe” “which,” he noted, “apart from my singing, was created entirely with sounds from the Rosetta space probe’s recording of Comet 67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko.”
