Björk: Biophilia 12:18

 

 

There once was a time people just bought a 45rpm single if they wanted to buy some music. Well, that’s not going to fly anymore. Today, you need to maneuver crystals around the universe if you want to hear some music. At least for Björk’s…

 

 

(Found via SubmarineChannel)

Lucio Arese: You 18:05

 

 

Lucio Arese has been featured here before (see his unofficial Auterche video here). This time his work is even more abstract. The music is by Nobukazu Takemura. Here is what Arese has to say about his working methods for this piece:

 

The audiovisual flow is organized in repeated micro sections of a few seconds each, everyone with his own life, linked together to form a modular structure.

The realization is characterized by a variety of techniques including 3d rendering, painting, a complex editing process and multilayered compositing.

A particular color treatment has been used on the whole film in order to obtain a burned out b/w photography, contributing to create a dense, dark, organic and somewhat indecipherable world where music and motion picture meet each other in a very intimate way.

 

One warning: I guess if you can’t stand stroboscopic lightning effects, you might not like watching this. Other wise, enjoy…

 

 

More work by Arese can be found on his site at www.lucioarese.net

(Found via The Curious Brain)

Sonic.Art – Bagatelle 10:07

 

You might remember Johannes Timpernagel from the post on Skyence – INSCT from November, last year. Today, he teams up with Robert Pohle and Sebastian Huber to make a video for the Sonic.Art saxophone quartet from Berlin.

 

 

To make the video, they used a combination of analogue and digital techniques. The members of the quartet were filmed in front of a green screen. An audio-reactive VVVV-drawing-application was created, which tracks the contours of the video footage. These were combined with hand-made sketches of the musicians.

Check out the result in the video below:

 

sonic.art – Bagatelle I from Johannes Timpernagel on Vimeo.

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(Found via Creative Applications Network)

Shyscapes by Misha Shyukin 11:50

 

Strange and dreamy… In the comments on Vimeo someone called it “tech poetry”. Think that sounds good.

Tech Poetry it is.

 

 

shyscapes from Misha Shyukin on Vimeo.

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(Found via Beautiful/Decay)

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Dirty Deeds: Stupid People 10:51

 

 

Great looking animation in this music video for the Canadian Dirty Deeds…

 

Dirty Deeds - Stupid People from Flying V on Vimeo.

Check out wizz.fr for more.

(Found via The Curious Brain)

Auterche: plyPhon 09:23

An unofficial, non-commercial video, made by Lucio Arese.

Every visual element is connected to a sound event; the whole video is intended to be like a sort of virtual score that develops itself in a continued run, according to the music.

More by Arese? Visit his site.

 

 

Autechre - plyPhon from lucio arese on Vimeo.

Skyence – INSCT 11:29

Great visuals, great sound…

 

Skyence – INSCT from Johannes Timpernagel on Vimeo.

Collaboration between Skyence (Hamburg) and Johannes Timpernagel (Berlin).

Direction & Animation: Johannes Timpernagel – timpernagel.com
Sound: Jochen Mader / Skyence / Audionerve – audionerve.de

Animation generated in VVVV, Editing in After Effects.

VVVV? Check out their site where they say:

 

vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously. Responsible for its development is the vvvv group.

IRC dance movement 10:33

Music video by Shueti for a Dutch breakdance collective called Illusionary Rockaz. Nice photography and subtle graphics…

 

IRC dance movement from . on Vimeo.

(Found via Eleblog)

Nina Simone 14:05

Done for a motion graphics class by Tamara Conolly. Nice video. And Nina Simone…

 

Seaweed 12:28

A Lo-Fi video experiment by Tell No One.

Brilliant little thingy…

 

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

The music is “Grizzly Man” by Rockettothesky.

Check out some more videos on the Tell No One – blog

 

(Found via Kitsune Noir)

Animation: Thomas Hicks 11:59

Sometimes I feel like such a nitwit.

Up ‘till yesterday I had never heard of Thomas Hicks. Nothing. Zilch.

And then I stumble upon a short docu about the man. And find out he has tons of videos on Vimeo.

Well, what can I say? I’m a nitwit…

Here’s the docu I mentioned, and a demo reel. Check them out. Don’t fall into the same trap as I, spending a big part of your life not having heard of Thomas Hicks. It’s no good. Just no good.

 

Thomas Hicks from Etapes on Vimeo.

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Thomas Hicks Animation Montage from Thomas Hicks on Vimeo.

More Thomas Hicks? Go to his Vimeo page.

Julio Cortázar & José Muñoz 21:48

A book trailer for “El Perseguidor” (“The Tracker”), a classic of 20th century literature, Julio Cortázar’s homage to jazz legend Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, illustrated by comic artist José Muñoz.

 

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Ink 13:50

No further explanation necessary. Please play full screen.

 

Ink Study 1 from brainflakes on Vimeo.

(Music = Subtle body by Fila Brazillia)

Jazz covers (2): Reid Miles 12:15

 

No Jazz album cover is more a Jazz album cover than a Reid Miles Blue Note Jazz album cover. His designs became close to iconic. To many people, they simple are what Jazz looks like.

My friend P (Hi, P!) and I recently made a comic book with jazz stories, packaged in a record sleeve. Guess what we decided it should look like? Right. (Check out the design and a sneak peek at the comic here if you haven’t seen it before…)

I’ve been wanting to dedicate a post to these record cover designs for quite a while, but in a way, it just seemed kind of obsolete to do so. You’ve all seen them before, right? Ah, well…

Yesterday, however, I happened upon a nice little video. (A promo for the concerts at the Bellavista Social Pub). Check it out:

 

Hi-Fi from bante on Vimeo.

 

Et voila! Problem solved. Finally got Reid Miles featured on Monsieur Bandit. Well, sort of, anyway…

If you want to see more of the original Miles’ record covers, or read a bit about him, check out some of these articles: Thinking Miles ahead on d|visible or The Jazzy Blue Notes on Retinart. Also worth checking are these two posts on the Fontfeed-blog: Almost Blue and Reid Miles typography. To see the most extensive collection of Blue Note covers I know of, go to the Vintage Vanguard.

(Found via The Casual Optimist)

 

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Sound + Graphics (2): ReacTable 18:21

In the second Installment of this series we take a look at some kind of new musical instrument, the “ReacTable”.

Reactable is a collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a table, and inspired by modular synthesizers of the sixties. It was developed by the Music Technology Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Multiple simultaneous users share total control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on the surface of a bright circular table. Manipulating these objects, representatives of the classical components of a modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sound typologies, generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer.

OK. Now if you are anything like me and you don’t have any clue about what a “sound typology” might be, you’ll be glad to hear I’ve got some videos that show the thing in action. Also, you will immediately understand why I am all of a sudden talking about musical instruments on Monsieur Bandit… This ReacTable-thingy looks incredible! It is by far the most visual, graphical way of making music I’ve ever seen.

The first video is a short demo, showing us the basics of how the ReacTable works. The second is a fragment from “Later with Jools Holland” in which Björk performs a song from “Volta”, using the ReacTable on stage. Enjoy.

 

 

 

To learn more about the ReacTable go to www.reactable.com/

Technorati Tags: music visualization,reactable,björk

Sound + Graphics (1): Solar 11:56

A new series on Monsieur Bandit in which we will explore and present all kinds of different ways to combine (making) music with (making) visuals. Consider this the introduction: a short music video created with “processing” which is an open source programming language and environment to program images, animation and interaction. (Yeah, I don’t understand that either…check out http://www.processing.org/ if you want to know more.)

The music is by Goldfrapp: “Lovely head” (from their first album). The visuals and programming by Flight404.

 

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

And if you really want to delve into how this was done, go to  http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=111

 

Technorati Tags: sound + graphics,Goldfrapp,flight404,processing,solar

Animation: Grindin’ 22:08

Most of the time people are trying to make computer generated work look like the real thing. But this seems to be the other way around, stop motion animation done with painted blocks of wood made to look like low-res computer graphics.

 

Nobody Beats The Drum - Grindin' from nobody beats the drum on Vimeo.

 

And as a bonus, the (ahum…) “making of” Grindin’:

 

the making of Grindin' from nobody beats the drum on Vimeo.

 

Technorati Tags: Grindin',Nobody Beats the Drum,Rogier van der Graaf,Susie Oosting

More on Nobody Beats the Drum? Clickety-click.

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Found: Coltrane – Giant Steps 14:37

I was doing some research for a jazz story I’m writing for a friend of mine (Hi, P!) and found  this nice little animated video for John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”. It of course has nothing to do with the story I’m supposed to be writing and which needs to be finished in…oh, what, a week or so ? Ahum, better get a move on then…

Damned internet.

 

John Coltrane - Giant Steps
door madafonka2

Technorati Tags: John Coltrane,Giant Steps,jazz,animation

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Video-glitch 14:50

Sometimes, things are just more beautiful when everything goes wrong…

haruka_glitch from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

 

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