Good Evening, Islanders!
Because of the recent bad weather here on the Isle of Will, I’ve been unable to gather fruit. Fortunately, work has now resumed and I’am pleased to announce a few things for your media grabbing hands…
Incidental Music: “Catch Me If You Can“– Title Sequence.
This task is coming along fine, finishing touches are around the corner. I’ve been using an ‘improvised Jazz” theme to this intro. which is completely new to me, so lets hope I pull it off! Also note I will be using live musicians to humanize and add dexterity to the piece very soon.
Sound FX: “300 Spartans“– End Title Sequence.
It’s in the works, currently tied up in a sandbox of Foley, meaning it’s there but it’s just not here. Within this piece I will utilize sound effects where there is none in the original animation. The sequence is animated by yU+co, and boasts impressive imagery which could (should?) easily contain bold sound effects. Maybe I can call it my additions “diegetic” sound effects? You decide!
Find the original title sequence here.
Music for a Painting: “Untitled” by Jean-Paul Riopelle
This piece of my impression of an impression, is work in progress, I’m quite certain I will use this painting but I will decide later. I have found a flexible technique to follow when musically ‘repainting’ an image. It’s on the contrary to my ambient piece for Electronica, where I embodied the emotion the image was giving me subjectively and composed via those feelings. In this case, I will attempt to literally follow the artist’s strokes and movements as if I’ am ‘repainting’ the image, but also use the literal relations of the ‘abstract’ objects and shapes to certain sound elements.
Jitter Programming: “Spectro… thing”
It’s ruddy hard, but once you get in the mud it’s more impossible to get out, so why bother buying soap? (…what?!) Anyway, I’m programing to find possibilities in patching streaming visuals and live audio. This is something along the lines of a spectrograph/sonogram, because I want to use live audio and it’s visual ’spectrum’ to modify source data of another image/movie. It’s in it’s archetypal stages at the moment, so don’t blame me for blabbing on.
Electroacoustic Ensemble: “Talk using your keyboard”
I find this really fascinating, one of my ‘EE’ projects is to relate a piece of music to one of those ramblings in written performance directions that Stockhausen wrote while snorting LSD (I do like Stockhausen!). Yes, but it’s quite fun, and not so easy… We’ll see how it turns out!
- I’m Listening to: “The Flashbulb - Soundtrack to a Vacant Life” plus, Soma FM!
- I’m Watching: Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
- I’m Reading: Jitter tutorials, a book on Impressionism and this video remixing stuff.
- I’m Feeling: Not so happy couples have a day of the year and singles don’t (or maybe that’s everyday?).
- I’m Browsing: Facebook, again, as if I haven’t already today.
- I’m Looking for: a Shakuhachi bamboo flute (second-hand?), and an excuse to go out on Valentines night.
Enjoy this sudden spout of sunshine and snow on the Island, and please remember to recycle!
Comments are welcome.
- Mayor Will
