Music plays a role in many of the final 125 short films that the Guggenheim Museum has announced as the semi-finalists in its “YouTube Play, A Biennial of Creative Video” project. All in all more than 23,000 submissions came in to the youtube.com/play site and here is a compilation of the top 125, with the final 20 to be announced over the coming weeks. The judges include filmmakers Darren Aronofsky and Apichatpong Weerasethakul as well as performance artist Laurie Anderson and the band Animal Collective.