Just in time for 2012 here is the School of Digital Media showreel with its new soundtrack (by BSc Music Tech graduate James Radford):
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A recent email from Cornelius (one half of Highland Brothers Inc.) in Croatia:
Dear Paul, your old tune, the “Test Pattern”, played a major role in defining me as an artist, it made me perceive music in a whole new way and as such has a special place in my heart.
It is incredible to think that a track I made 17 years ago is still being thought about, still alive somehow. That it had such a profound influence upon someone else is indeed humbling.
Highland Brothers Inc. - La Dolce Vita Original Mix - Baile Musik by Highland Brothers Inc.
A nice track from the forthcoming Brian Eno/Rick Holland collaboration Drums Between The Bells.
Interesting to hear Eno moving into this mainstream territory: the poetic “lyrics” and classy production put it a cut above most bog-standard “electronica.” Kraftwerk, eat your cold robotic hearts out!
This is super, a clever and moving use of the Internet to create music:
I wonder what they used to clean all those audio files up?
[Via Grant Senior.]
Here’s a great track from Safe As Milk live on a beach in California (presumably from 1967-1968):
And here’s a promotional video for the title track from the 1982 album Ice Cream For Crow. This was Beefheart’s last album before giving up music for a life of painting, some of which can be seen in the video:
Web core. Web core.
Here’s a slick bit of online augmented reality hi-jinx created—I’m very pleased to be able to say—by two ex-Swansea Metropolitan University students, Rob Chalmers and Tristian Ballard (now both working for media production company FauvelKhan). Everything you need to know is in this video:
I’ve never been particularly interested in 10cc, but this video gives a fascinating insight into the making of I’m Not In Love:
Apparently, the audio track of the video is derived from a radio broadcast (of unspecified origin), with the visuals added by someone calling himself TheMysticAudio.
The most impressive thing about the whole thing is that it highlights the lengths 10cc were prepared to go to to get the sound they wanted. Because the voices that underpin the track are not output from a plug-in or synth preset it gives the track a completely unique sound, and the production method they had to go through to achieve the effect they wanted becomes the track. The process is the product.
[Via Boing Boing via Dangerous Minds]
Check out this superb little film. As Peter Kirn says in his original post:
Sound design and recording quality are important, but in this film, directed by Henrik Hansen, each gesture of the sound mix is likewise deliberate and meticulously paced. There’s a reason some of the best editors are both film and sound editors.
Note there’s also an HD version on YouTube for full effect.
[Via Create Digital Music]
[Via Pixelsumo]
