Soundscreen Design is a collection of graphic t-shirts anchored by an interesting concept that asks the musicians themselves to create artwork for graphic tees promoting their band or just because. Surprisingly or rather not surprisingly (considering that musicians are artists) there are some pretty damn cool tees in their store. If you like the musicians responsible for their creation it serves as a bit of a double bonus.
“A mashup is a song created by blending two or more other songs. The more complex a mashup gets, the harder it is to distinguish the parts that are being used to create what you’re hearing. This visualisation of the song “Definitive Daft Punk” by Cameron Adams dissects a mashup in realtime to show you how each of the 23 parts contributes to the greater whole.”
Super fun little project to watch. It would be great to see some more songs loaded in there maybe a little somethin’ somethin’ by Girl Talk. Just a suggestion.
Nightcrawler, a member of Medusateam lays down some beats and sets them to a throwback horror psychedelic freakout that might just get you jumping in your seat.
Creative direction: Nightcrawler
Music & video produced by: Nightcrawler
Company: Marathon beat
“Arranged like a symphony orchestra, approximately 200 antique vacuums, mixers and washers are transformed into musical instruments. They form an ensemble that the conductor, harpsichordist and composer Michael Petermann, alias weiserrausch.de, has now completed after eight years of preparation: The Stupid Orchestra.”
This installation is currently on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (mkg-hamburg.de).
!!! or Chk Chk Chk if you are so inclined took a night from boogie nights with some long tracking shots in this super fun to watch video with an equally super fun music track to match. There are some classic moments in this one.
Directed by: Saman Keshavarz (samankeshavarz.blogspot.com)
Associate Producer: Nate Eggert
Producers: Francis Pollara, Tom Lee
Executive Producers: Lanette Phillips
Commissioner: Laura Tunstall
Cinematographer: Justin Gurnari
Art Directors: Evangeline Joo, Mike Rios, Jillian Mamey
Editor: Nate Tam
Visual FX: Gabe Valente
Additional Visual FX: Alessandro Schiassi
Label: Warp Records (warp.net)
Production Company: Mighty 8 (mighty8.tv)
This video was directed by Saam Farahmand for the Klaxons single ‘Twin Flames’. Disturbing is probably an apropos adjective in this case if you want to put it mildly with a touch of sarcasm. ‘WTF’ spoken by clearly enunciating each word as opposed to saying the acronym might also be a proper response. Regardless of what you might think out loud or inward this is a strange but technically accomplished piece of art.
Director: Saam Farahmand
Production Company: Partizan
Post House: BlindPig@ Absolute
Producer: Fenella Sanderson
Commissioner: Emily Tedrake
DOP: Dan Bronks
Editor: Gus Herdman@Trim
Edit is a project in which each participating designer was asked to represent a musical genre using only one element and one typeface that clearly states the genre. The end result is a series of minimalist posters available for purchase.
POGO is at it again only this time instead of visual trickery Snow White-style it’s audio instead. It’s still a brilliant little piece of music and will only definitely peak interest in the new mixup mashup internet audio-visual art landscape that we have only just begun spiraling into.
I have expressed just how much I love the newest album from Arcade Fire and what a poignant album ‘The Suburbs’ is for someone in their 30s reflecting back on their childhood and wondering at what point do you begin calling yourself an ‘adult’. I can’t think of a better director to communicate that loss of innocence and those inner rumblings than Spike Jonze and that is exactly what he has achieved in this music video for the title track of the album. It’s beautiful and it’s pure Spike Jonze. It also works absolutely perfectly with the music. Bravo.
I must admit to being a big fan of Lykke Li and this latest video strengthened my resolve. You can download a free copy of the track here.
This has been online for 9 months already but is still worth sharing for the accolades it garnered alone. ‘The Light of Life’ was directed by Daihei Shibata with piano by Naomi Yaguchi and music by Debussy featuring the song “Clair de Lune”. Beautiful video.
Sam O’Hare put together this awesome video of the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. You can learn a little more about the project straight from O’Hare himself here. I really love the effect utilized to create videos like these.
Original music by Human (humanworldwide.com)
Composer: Matthew O’Malley
Lead Vocal: Alexx Calise
Music Producer/CD: Mike Jurasits
EP: Marc Altshuler
Chris Sweeney directed this video for the Foals single ‘Blue Blood’. It’s a good song equaled by great casting and a confidently energetic performance by a young actor. Is it just me or are ‘all’ the good music videos now online (and they look better on Vimeo)?
There is some excellent compositing done by John Harrison in this video for Badly Drawn Boy’s single ‘Too Many Miracles’. The video was directed by Sam Mason and produced by Tamsin Glasson. I should also note that I am a big fan of Badly Drawn Boy. Double whammy.
Music: Dadly Drawn Boy
Direction: Sam Mason
Animation: Robin Bushell
Compositing: John Harrison
Producer: Tamsin Glasson
Production: Colonel Blimp
Mike Winkelmann AKA Beeple created this 3D animated video for Flying Lotus’s single ‘Kill Your Co-Workers’. You can actually download all of the 3d characters in the video for free at beeple-crap.com/resources.php. Strange but good (just like Flying Lotus).
A talented group of artisans assembled this video for the Midnight Juggernauts single ‘Lara Vs The Savage Pack’ shooting it frame by frame using over 2000 printed pieces of paper to generate the desired effect.
Directors: Lucinda Schreiber & Beatrice Pegard
Editor – Jaan Ranniko
Producers – Jaan Ranniko, Sonia Tsai
Compositor – Simon von Wolkenstein
DOP – Tania Lambert
Art Directors – Virginia Mesiti, Kate Dougherty
Stylist – Angelika Nilsson
Masks: Stephanie Anderson & Dave Ladd
Paul Kamuf assembled this interesting experimental video about the life of a text for John Pugh who is also in the band Free Blood. It uses the screen in an unconventional way to further the message and incorporates video and motion to tell the story about what happens when you reach out and tell someone what your thinking with your cell.
Sylvain Tardiveau puts forward a somewhat expected video but that doesn’t make it any less fun or kick ass. It is also right on the money for the music.
