Nora the Cat

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2009-09-22T08:02:43Z

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2007

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Nora the Cat <h2>About</h2> <p>Nora the Cat is a piano-playing <a href="/memes/lolcats">Internet cat</a> known for her atonal musical meanderings. Videos of her randomly stepping on a keyboard have been viewed over 20M times <small><abbr>(as of 2009-09-22 21:03)</abbr></small>. He owner has stated that was not trained in any way, and plays the piano for short periods a few times per day.</p> <p>Nora has received a wide variety of press coverage, including <a href="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1460860.ece">The Times of London</a> and <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/01/0105biomusic.html">National Geographic</a>. The (admittedly adorable) video has been played on most major media outlets, including <span class="caps">CNN</span>, the Daily Show, Martha Stewart, Public Radio International, and the Philadelphia Inquirer [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_%28cat%29">WP</a>]</p> <h2>Popularity</h2> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&up__property=empty&up__search_terms=nora+the+cat%7Cnora+cat%7Cpiano+cat%7Cpiano+nora&up__location=empty&up__category=0&up__time_range=empty&up__compare_to_category=false&synd=ig&w=650&h=300&lang=en-US&title=Google+Insights+for+Search&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js"></script><h2>Media</h2> <center>The original video: (15M+ views)</center> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TZ860P4iTaM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TZ860P4iTaM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <center>The sequel (4M+ views)</center> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v0zgQAp7EYw&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v0zgQAp7EYw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <h2>Remixes</h2> <p>Artist Cory Arcangel recreated a classic piece of atonal composition using clips of cats stepping on keyboards from the Internet. In <a href="http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/DreiKlavierstucke">his words</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Recently I took a few months of my free time and decided to recreate Arnold Schoenberg’s 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka Three Piano Pieces) by editing together videos of cats playing pianos downloaded from Youtube. Schoenberg’s Op11 is often considered the first piece of “atonal” music, or music to completely break from traditional western harmony which means it’s not written in a “key”.</p> </blockquote> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lF6IBWTDgnI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lF6IBWTDgnI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <p>See also: <a href="/memes/maru-the-cat">Maru the Cat</a>, <a href="/memes/lolcats">LOLcats</a></p> <p><strong>[[additional vimeos needed]]</strong></p>

2009-11-16T22:49:14Z

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