Jonsi Tour trailer.
Sunday, July 25th, 2010August 4. Melbourne. I’ll be there. Oh my!
jónsi tour trailer from Jónsi on Vimeo.
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Diehard Battery vs. Gary Numan
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010I found found this on adland.tv – brilliant concept!
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Y&R Chicago and DieHard batteries partnered with Zoo Films’ director James Frost, (of OK GO and Radiohead music video fame) and LA technology collective Syyn Labs. Together they created a keyboard made of cars, for Numan to perform, well, we’ll let you guess his choice of song..
Zoo Film director James Frost on Diehard Battery vs. Gary Numan:
When I received the first round of creative, I got on the phone with Todd Taber, Jamie Overkamp and Luke Rzewnicki at Y&R and we bounced some ideas back and forth. We wanted to create a bigger idea with the three original concepts, something that was visual, musical and something that pushed the battery to a limit of some kind. One weekend I was watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and while watching I had this idea about making banks of cars react to a keyboard with sound and light, so I rang Adam Sadowsky of Syyn labs who I’d recently worked with on OK Go. We met one lunchtime and bounced a bunch of ideas and theories around – whether it was seemingly possible to achieve it etc. It was from this conversation that the car piano was born. So I went back to Y&R and said we felt confident that we could pull it off. They liked the idea, so we began the process of researching and putting the project together.
Logistically we had to work out how to control each cars headlight and horn with a single key on a keyboard. It’s not possible to tune each car horn, so instead we got our own horns and tuned them to a pitch that was controlled via a keyboard. This way we could actually re-create two octaves on a keyboard using cars. Everything had to be wired up together but still allow the car to operate. The guys at Syyn labs worked ferociously up until the last minute to make sure everything worked – most notably Eric Gradman who seemed to be in multiple places at once.
I want to also say that Jason Hamilton my production designer and his crew worked so incredibly hard to make sure everything was in place to allow the Syyn Labs guys to come in and do the wiring, they had to position all the cars, set them up all in the middle of nowhere in blazing heat and the occasional 35mph dust storm. Jason & I also designed the Frost/Hamilton DHK1 keyboard, which is a fully functioning double stack keyboard – it looks and sounds great folks 
Then about a month before we were due to shoot I woke up in the middle of the night and said, “What about Gary Numan playing Cars on Cars?” The next morning I emailed the guys at Y&R immediately and they loved the idea, they told me to go ahead and approach him to see if he would even be remotely interested. I contacted his booking agent here in the states and from there the conversations started.
Working with Gary, well what can I say, one of my earliest memories of a song having a big impact on me was “Are Friends Electric” by Tubeway Army (of which Gary Numan was the lead singer), so it was obviously an honor to meet him in the first place, being English and everything, but I have to say the conditions of this shoot were not easy, we shot overnight deep in the Mojave desert some three hours outside of LA and Gary flew from London the night before and then had to sit in a car for five hours to get to location (LA Traffic) and stayed with us until about 3-4AM, when he left and drove back to catch a plane back to London. He was nothing short of a gentleman, who was really I think quite intrigued and amused by the idea of himself playing Cars on Cars.
Credits:
Client: DieHard
Project: Diehard Torture Tests
Titles: “Diehard Battery vs. Gary Numan” & “Diehard Battery vs. The Bullet”
Agency: Y&R Chicago
Chief Creative Officer: Ken Erke
Associate Creative Director: Todd Taber
Associate Creative Director: Jamie Overkamp
Head of Production: Brian Smego
Producer: Luke Rzewnicki
Director: James Frost
Production Company: Zoo Film
Executive Producer: Gower Frost
Line Producer: Sam Khazaeni
Director of Photography : Dermott Downs
Production Designer: Jason Hamilton
Experiential Design Company: Syyn Labs
Editorial Company: Optimus, Chicago
Producer: Tracy Spera
Editor: Ruben Vela
Assistant Editor: Jill DiBiase
Colorist: Craig Leffel
Audio Engineer: Joel Anderson
Music: Beta Petrol
The Lady GaGa formula
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010(RAH)² (AH)³+ RO (MA + MAMA) + (GA)² + OOH(LA)² = Bad Romance.
Gossip – Heavy Cross
Sunday, July 19th, 2009This song, “Heavy Cross” by Gossip just blows me away – Beth Ditto’s voice is sensational!
Gossip – Heavy Cross from Popbytes on Vimeo.
Michael Michael Michael!
Monday, July 6th, 2009Wow – this is just crazy! This weeks Australian singles charts have 17 re-entries for Michael Jackson. The first three spots of the album charts are all Michael Jackson albums as well, with a further 5 albums in the Top 50. Ka-ching!
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06/07/2009 |
| B | TW | LW | TI | HP | Title | Artist | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | I GOTTA FEELING | The Black Eyed Peas | ||||
| 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | PAPARAZZI | Lady Gaga | ||||
| * | 3 | - | R/E | 3 | THRILLER | Michael Jackson | |||
| 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | NEW DIVIDE | Linkin Park | ||||
| 5 | 2 | 14 | 1 | BOOM BOOM POW | The Black Eyed Peas | ||||
| * | 6 | - | R/E | 1 | BLACK OR WHITE | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 7 | - | R/E | 1 | BILLIE JEAN | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 8 | - | R/E | 8 | MAN IN THE MIRROR | Michael Jackson | |||
| 9 | 4 | 13 | 3 | NOT FAIR | Lily Allen | ||||
| 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | YOU BELONG WITH ME | Taylor Swift | ||||
| 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | WHEN LOVE TAKES OVER | David Guetta Feat. Kelly Rowland | ||||
| 12 | 9 | 13 | 5 | THE CLIMB | Miley Cyrus | ||||
| * | 13 | - | R/E | 5 | THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 14 | - | R/E | 1 | BEN | Michael Jackson | |||
| 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | HER DIAMONDS | Rob Thomas | ||||
| * | 16 | - | R/E | 16 | SMOOTH CRIMINAL | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 17 | - | R/E | 2 | BEAT IT | Michael Jackson | |||
| 18 | 13 | 9 | 10 | RIVERSIDE | Sidney Samson | ||||
| 19 | 11 | 6 | 10 | HUSH HUSH; HUSH HUSH | The Pussycat Dolls | ||||
| 20 | 8 | 8 | 8 |  |
CHASE THAT FEELING | Hilltop Hoods | |||
| * | 21 | - | R/E | 1 | DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 22 | - | R/E | 7 | YOU ARE NOT ALONE | Michael Jackson | |||
| 23 | 14 | 3 | 9 | |
BECAUSE | Jessica Mauboy | |||
| 24 | 18 | 3 | 18 | BATTLEFIELD | Jordin Sparks | ||||
| 25 | 15 | 12 | 1 | WE MADE YOU | Eminem | ||||
| * | 26 | 44 | 2 | 26 | 21 GUNS | Green Day | |||
| * | 27 | - | R/E | 4 | BAD | Michael Jackson | |||
| 28 | 12 | 13 | 3 | BREAKEVEN | The Script | ||||
| 29 | 16 | 11 | 6 | BAD INFLUENCE | P!nk | ||||
| * | 30 | - | R/E | 20 | HEAL THE WORLD | Michael Jackson | |||
| 31 | 27 | 4 | 27 | SWEET DREAMS | Beyonce | ||||
| 32 | 21 | 6 | 19 | BONKERS | Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden | ||||
| 33 | 17 | 10 | 11 | WAKING UP IN VEGAS | Katy Perry | ||||
| 34 | 22 | 25 | 1 | LOVE STORY | Taylor Swift | ||||
| 35 | 24 | 6 | 24 | KNOCK YOU DOWN | Keri Hilson Feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo | ||||
| * | 36 | - | R/E | 4 | ROCK WITH YOU | Michael Jackson | |||
| 37 | 23 | 16 | 1 | JAI HO! (YOU ARE MY DESTINY) | A.R. Rahman Feat. The Pussycat Dolls | ||||
| 38 | 20 | 7 | 20 | SUGAR | Flo Rida Feat. Wynter | ||||
| 39 | 19 | 8 | 19 | SECOND CHANCE | Shinedown | ||||
| * | 40 | - | R/E | 6 | REMEMBER THE TIME | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 41 | - | NEW | 41 | CAN YOU FEEL IT | Michael Jackson | |||
| 42 | 26 | 5 | 26 | IF TODAY WAS YOUR LAST DAY | Nickelback | ||||
| * | 43 | - | R/E | 13 | ABC | Jackson 5 | |||
| * | 44 | - | NEW | 44 | BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE | Michael Jackson | |||
| * | 45 | - | R/E | 16 | THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US | Michael Jackson | |||
| 46 | 28 | 15 | 4 | LOVEGAME | Lady Gaga | ||||
| 47 | 25 | 9 | 13 | |
FOREIGN LAND | Eskimo Joe | |||
| 48 | 34 | 2 | 34 | HEAVY CROSS | Gossip | ||||
| 49 | 31 | 10 | 9 | I DO NOT HOOK UP | Kelly Clarkson | ||||
| 50 | 32 | 14 | 16 | KISS ME THRU THE PHONE | Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em Feat. Sammie |
…and it’s a big YES to the Pet Shop Boys
Monday, April 27th, 2009I am loving this video for the Pet Shop Boys latest single “Love etc.”
The video was made by Han Hoogerbrugge, the creator of the extremely popular Modern Living Neurotica series as well as his current interactive series Hotel, created for the online SubmarineChannel.
I especially love his interactive flash work for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.
Röyksopp ‘Happy Up Here’
Monday, March 23rd, 2009This clip for Röyksopp‘s song ‘Happy Up Here’ is just sensational!
Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.
I’ve been listening to the album “Junior” for the last week after seeing this clip during my stay in hospital. Funky!
Summadayze & Underworld
Monday, January 5th, 2009Yesterday, I went to see Underworld play live at Summadayze 2009 on the Perth Esplanade. I last saw the band at the Big Day Out in Melbourne in 1999 – and was so impressed, I just had to see them again. The last time they came to Perth was 25 years ago when they were Underworld Mk I (remember Underneath The Radar?).
The band put on an awesome live show – with huge inflatable logs that were lit up inside and the highlight was during “Born Slippy” when they released huge white balloons into the crowd. Unfortunately, the Fremantle Doctor got hold of them and they ended up away from the Underworld punters in front of the stage – but they still loved it!
Below are some photos & a video that I shot with my trusty Nokia 6120C – they’re not the best quality – but it gives you an idea of what the show was like.
Vale Tristram Cary
Monday, April 28th, 2008Tristram Cary, the composer who died on Wednesday aged 82, was a leading exponent of electronic music, producing concert works and scores for films and television, including several episodes of Doctor Who.
Although Cary discovered that his output filled no fewer than 76 CDs, he was disappointed to be largely unrecognised in his native England, perhaps because he had emigrated to Australia in midlife.
In a global context, however, Cary was acknowledged as the father of electronic music.
Having experimented with sound and tape manipulation while working as a naval radar engineer during the Second World War, in the 1950s Cary created one of the first electronic music studios and worked on scores for such films as the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955), Hammer’s Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and a three-part Disney adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper (1962).
In Doctor Who Cary scored incidental music for several memorable episodes, including the first to introduce the Daleks in December 1963, and others such as “Marco Polo” (1964), “The Daleks’ Master Plan” (1966) and “The Mutants” (1972).
He also provided scores for television dramas such as Jane Eyre (1963) and Madame Bovary (1964).
advertisementBefore emigrating to Australia in 1972 Cary was commissioned by the Olivetti company to write a piece using the noises of their office equipment.
The result was his Divertimento for 16 singers, jazz drummer and Olivetti machines, which was performed live at the opening of the firm’s new training centre in Surrey, with Cary himself conducting in front of a VIP audience that included the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The text of the work comprised cardinal numbers sung in four languages.
Another innovative piece, his extended cantata Peccata mundi (for which he wrote his own libretto) was introduced at the 1972 Cheltenham Festival. It called for the conventional forces of chorus and orchestra, but with the addition of a speaking voice and four tape tracks.
Although Cary composed for traditional instruments and ensembles, his abiding interest lay in electronic music, which he wrote for concert performance in most of the accepted genres: synthetic, musique concrète (or a mixture of both), mixed works for live performers and electronic sounds.
As a founder director of Electronic Music Studios (EMS), he helped to design the VCS3 portable synthesiser, which Pink Floyd used on their 1973 concept album The Dark Side Of The Moon.
While visiting Australia to demonstrate the synthesiser to music lecturers, Cary was offered a one-year contract as visiting composer at Adelaide University. In the event, he remained there for 12 years as senior lecturer until his retirement in 1986.
Tristram Ogilvie Cary was born on May 14 1925 in Oxford, the third son of the novelist Joyce Cary and his wife Gertrude. Educated at Westminster, he was a King’s scholar and a friend of both Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who introduced him to the music of Stravinsky.
Tristram won an exhibition to Christ Church, Oxford, but after two terms his Science studies were interrupted by the Second World War, and he served in the Royal Navy between 1943 and 1946.
Specialising in radar – he had been a radio enthusiast in his teens – he received training in electronics and grasped the potential of new technology from Germany that enabled sound to be recorded on magnetic tape; on his demobilisation in late 1946 he returned to Oxford, changed his degree course to PPE and immediately began experimenting with tape recorders.
He realised that, as well as being a way of reproducing sound, tape could be the source of an altogether new type of music.
After graduating Cary enrolled at the Trinity College of Music, studying composition, piano, horn, viola and conducting, and taught at evening classes to augment his student grant.
During the early 1950s Cary began to write and teach music and took a part-time job in a gramophone shop selling expensive hi-fi while developing his first electronic music studio.
By 1954 he was able to earn a full-time living writing music for radio, films and the emerging medium of television, as well as composing numerous concert works.
In an early experiment in the field of environmental sound, Cary provided a sound-environment for the different sections of the British pavilion at Expo ’67 in Montreal.
In the same year he founded the electronic music studio at the Royal College of Music, the first of its kind in Britain, and designed and built another for himself, which he transported from London to his house in Suffolk and subsequently to Australia, where it was incorporated into the expanding teaching studio at Adelaide University.
Returning to freelance composition, Cary drew on the university’s studio and his own at home to generate music across the spectrum, from film scores to concert pieces.
In the mid-1990s there were performances of his work to mark his 70th birthday, and a new suite based on his music for the film The Ladykillers won The Gramophone magazine’s award for best film music CD in 1998.
Cary also wrote on concerts and opera for The Australian, and in 2005 received the Adelaide Critics’ Circle lifetime achievement award. Adelaide University honoured him with a Music doctorate in 2001.
A citizen of both Britain and Australia, in 1991 Cary was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Australian music. He also broadcast regularly.
Tristram Cary married, in 1961 (dissolved 1980), Dorse Dukes. He married secondly, in 2003, Jane Delin.
Both wives survive him with the two sons and daughter of his first marriage.
Article from The Telegraph
