Creative Allies gives passionate art students, designers, creative types, writers, photographers, videomakers and fans (Allies) the opporunity to work with their favorite bands. Allies can from anywhere in the world upload their creations inspired by music. The creations can be licensed by the musician it was made for.

Musicians on the other hand can post requests for whatever they need made,  and allies can browse jobs to find something that strikes their creative chord.

For the 2009 Music Blog Zeitgeist, The Hype Machine tabulated the total number of songs from each band posted in 2009 by blogs on The Hype Machine. Then they invited 50 visual artists to create a new piece of artwork inspired by the band’s music and including the band’s name. The Top 50 Albums of 2009 were sourced from 550 bloggers personal Top 10 lists weighted according to their ranking.

Click here to view the artworks.

One Frame of Fame is a music video project by Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey for C-mon & Kypski’s new single ‘More is Less’.

It is a very simple idea that lets the viewer become one of the frames in the video. People are asked to mimic the pose of one frame in the music video, which is then automatically added to it. The video is updated every hour with the latest frames.

The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series was created using a remarkable archive of thousands of hours of tape recorded by a great photographer, W. Eugene Smith, in his loft building on Sixth Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets in New York. From that tape, certain sounds and stories emerged that became the focus of the series

Box Animation is a 3D animation created by Canadian Motion Designer, Jordan Clarke. The animation was presented as an Event installation using matchmoving and compositing techniques.  Box materials were hand painted and scanned into the computer to create the materials for this project.

Shoot The Player makes spontaneous, unplugged music videos in real life locations around Sydney. They encourage audiences to see and hear in a completely new way, by putting great musicians in iconic locations where you’d never expect them to be. Each single-shot film walks a brave and unpredictable line, like the best of public art the performers interact with the space and people around them to create something genuinely original.

This  music visualization by Peter Menich is a glowing point in space that follows the timeline, emitting millions of particles to the different piano key strokes. Via.

For their new ad campaign, Vodafone wanted to create an original way of playing a piece of classical music.

The idea was simply to use a collection of 1000 mobile phones with 2000 TXT alerts that – when received in the sequence – created a symphony : Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. It took 53 different ringtone alerts, timed to perfection. After a lot of practice it actually worked and Symphonia is the result.

You can view the making of Symphonia here and here.

After working on a simulation for the Advanced Beauty Project, directing collective Minivegas had the idea to create a virtual gallery in which the user can interact with sound driven interactive sculptures. The space is modeled after the Vegas gallery. The album artwork of the MP3s cover the gallery walls and each MP3 creates its own sculpture.

Walt Ribeiro, a graduate of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia for Music Composition, loves the orchestra.

Walt invites the readers of his blog to suggest songs they want re-arranged as an orchestra piece, via his Forum or Twitter.

Check out his latest composition, a beautiful rendition of Radiohead’s Reckoner.