Saturday, July 26, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
"The amazing TED conference has been slowly releasing videos from their last event, which took place a little over a year ago in March of 2007. One of their recently released videos is of Jakob Trollbäck (of Trollbäck + Company) presenting a collaborative project he undertook with Brian Eno for the occasion of the TED conference.
“Moonlight in Glory” goes back to the earliest experiments in animation and filmmaking from pioneers like Oskar Fischinger and Len Lye. Abstract forms and minimal type are presented as visual music. The images are not illustrations of a lyrical theme or even a reflection of the song’s mood; rather, they are sound made visible."
-from Motionographer.com
I'll Be Gone Music Video
Taking the simple premise of using a cardiograph (Four of them to be precise) to represent different audio lines within the track, Rimantas manages to create something truly mesmerising.
-from Motionographer.com
Lithuanian director Rimantas Lukavicius (korb), for Mario Basanov & Vidis feat. Jazzu - “I’ll be gone”
Previous Parsons Thesis Inspiration
Daniel Sullivan
Timetables is a short film about my music and the manipulation of time in the urban environment. The main character is a DJ, with clocks instead of turntables, who uses his ability to create music and control time by synchronizing the movements of the city to the beat. I have captured video footage of sunrises and sunsets, clouds moving over architecture, shadows moving across buildings, traffic and people and rearranged time so that their movements have become a visual representation of my music. Through experimental animation, this film gives rhythm to the unexpected.
Timetables is a short film about my music and the manipulation of time in the urban environment. The main character is a DJ, with clocks instead of turntables, who uses his ability to create music and control time by synchronizing the movements of the city to the beat. I have captured video footage of sunrises and sunsets, clouds moving over architecture, shadows moving across buildings, traffic and people and rearranged time so that their movements have become a visual representation of my music. Through experimental animation, this film gives rhythm to the unexpected.
Key Artists in Urban History
Narrative Method:
storytelling of DJing.
DJs: why? (Importance of DJs)
working DJs depict current music scenes, they are the ones connect music to masses, they are the ultimate sources who deliver the material / control what we hear / interact with the audience
music they provide gives snippets of music scene - tells a story by sound.
music triggers nostalgia, time machine.
Three Major Urban sections:
Portishead, Daft Punk, Aphex Twins, Buddha Bar, Prodigy
Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Ratatat
Dre,
Roots, Common, Erykah, OutKast
DJ Premier, Rakim, Biggie, Nas, Mobb Deep
(New York, Ten Crack Commandment, Nas Is Like, ..)
Shady-Aftermath-G-Unit, Neptunes, Rise of South
Roc-A-Fella, Jay-Z, Kanye
(Stronger, blend to daft punk)
Rise of Alternative Hip Hop, Danger Mouse, Grey Album, Cee-Lo Green, Gnarls Barkley, Danger Doom
90's Radiohead, U2, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot
00's Coldplay, Maroon 5, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Ratatat
Rise of Emo
Different music styles gives birth to branches of different lifestyles
Show different Lifestyles forming
Eventually, youth grows and grows
Shows Birth of Youtube generation, google, file sharing
In front of computers sending / receiving files and
crash of music industry / collapsing.
storytelling of DJing.
DJs: why? (Importance of DJs)
working DJs depict current music scenes, they are the ones connect music to masses, they are the ultimate sources who deliver the material / control what we hear / interact with the audience
music they provide gives snippets of music scene - tells a story by sound.
music triggers nostalgia, time machine.
Three Major Urban sections:
Portishead, Daft Punk, Aphex Twins, Buddha Bar, Prodigy
Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Ratatat
Dre,
Roots, Common, Erykah, OutKast
DJ Premier, Rakim, Biggie, Nas, Mobb Deep
(New York, Ten Crack Commandment, Nas Is Like, ..)
Shady-Aftermath-G-Unit, Neptunes, Rise of South
Roc-A-Fella, Jay-Z, Kanye
(Stronger, blend to daft punk)
Rise of Alternative Hip Hop, Danger Mouse, Grey Album, Cee-Lo Green, Gnarls Barkley, Danger Doom
90's Radiohead, U2, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot
00's Coldplay, Maroon 5, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Ratatat
Rise of Emo
Different music styles gives birth to branches of different lifestyles
Show different Lifestyles forming
Eventually, youth grows and grows
Shows Birth of Youtube generation, google, file sharing
In front of computers sending / receiving files and
crash of music industry / collapsing.
Concept Progress Report
3. Musical Timeline (of Urban Music)
- Chronological order of sound collage narrative to depict past and present
- Educational purposes
- Visual guidance for audiences through back in time in musical history
+ Musical time line through DJ method
+ Set design through After Effects
+ Visual Language of AS 3.0 and Processing
+ Possible interaction through Max/MSP + Jitter
2. Musical Narrative:
- Visualizing a story through soundscapes
1. Musical Visualization (Initial Approach) :
- Emphasis on patterns,
- Intuitive visual communication for analysis purposes
- Exploration of relationship between sound waves and light waves
- Chronological order of sound collage narrative to depict past and present
- Educational purposes
- Visual guidance for audiences through back in time in musical history
+ Musical time line through DJ method
+ Set design through After Effects
+ Visual Language of AS 3.0 and Processing
+ Possible interaction through Max/MSP + Jitter
2. Musical Narrative:
- Visualizing a story through soundscapes
1. Musical Visualization (Initial Approach) :
- Emphasis on patterns,
- Intuitive visual communication for analysis purposes
- Exploration of relationship between sound waves and light waves
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.
Nova (audio by Helios) from flight404 on Vimeo.
"The abstract underwater aesthetic flows perfectly with the song, creating a sort of subconscious storyline, hypnotizing the viewer with stunning radiating spheres (one of his trademarks), mind boggling particles, surreal tentacles, and a school of… weird fish, all perfectly linked to the audio.
The piece was created—like most of Robert’s work—with Processing (the open source programming language), this time without any post or editing work."
-from Motionographer.com
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
visual abstraction
opening title sequence by French studio Deubal
retro styled shape and motion illustration - sophisticated integration of shapes and sound
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