quoted 5 lines -Even if there's not quite as much too it, i'd be curious to
> > -Even if there's not quite as much too it, i'd be curious to
> > -see it done.
>
>Yer typical underground-underground music submetacultural docudramamentary,
>right, lessee
Ok, I haven't told too many peopel about this, but I guess now's as good as
any...
I think I should also say that this project was and is completely
subjective. Please don't harass me too much with why isn't X artist
involved. I'm not really ready for major critisim yet. I just wanted to let
peeps know that there are other peeps working on it...
Here's a doc telling all about the project:
Working title:
Fracture and Rebuild:
Music in a Digital Age
"In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was
born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of
men."
Luigi Russolo,
From The Art of Noises
(July 1, 1913)
"The revolution will not be televised."
Flavor Flav, "It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back",
Def Jam Recordings
(1998)
The very same group of teenagers and twenty-something?s given computers in
the past several years have become the PC generation, an astonishingly adept
community of users and programmers of audio and video software. This group
pilots the many disparate directions of current experimental digital music.
I have been fortunate enough to have many of the worlds foremost and
challenging artists agree to be interviewed. From the extremely aggressive
beat oriented noise of Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), Keith Whitman
(Hrvatski), Otto Von Schirach, Maria Moran (Zipperspy), Craig Williangham
(I-Sound), Miguel dePedro (Kid 606), DJ Scud, and DJ Speedranch to the
intricate programming of Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars),
Richard Devine, Alex Graham (Lexaunculpt) Mike Paradinas (Mu-siq), Rian
Kidwell (Cex), Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmitt (Matmos), and Brad Lanier
(Electric Company). The pioneering and influential DJ-based concepts of
Christian Marclay, DJ Olive, Marina Rosenfeld (Fragment Opera), and Thomas
Brinkman and the Reggae-Dub timbres of Chris Sattinger (Timeblind), Kit
Clayton, and Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky). The abstract soundscapes of Markus
Popp (Oval), Paul Gough (Pimmon), James Plotkin, Tom DiMuzio, and Alejandra
and Aaron Bermann (Underwood) and the brash digital reconfigurations of
pop/rock archetypes by Dat Politics, Jay Lesser, James Kirby (V/Vm) Kevin
and Blevin Blectom (Blectom from Blectom), Centuries, and Eric Vegan
(Errorsmith). As well as the glitch/minimal sound of Taylor Dupree, Carsten
Nicolai (Noto), Frank Bretschneider (Komet), and Olaf Bender (Byetone). The
artist/managers of influential record labels such as Fat Cat (Dave Howell),
Mille Plateaux (Jon Berry), Schematic (Romulo del Castillo and Josh Kay),
and Raster-Noton (Frank Bretschneider and Carsten Nicolai) have also agreed
to speak about their intentions.
While their peers in the community have lately recognized many of these
exciting producers, nearly all of them remain faceless and vaguely obscure.
This video documentary seeks to give a voice and an image to the conceptual
framework inherent in their music and theoretical stance. After considering
the direction of the piece for months now, I have chosen to focus only on
the most current wave of producers, presenting a current snapshot of what?s
happening now.
It is important that this project is indeed a video. Most of these
musicians use or collaborate with video artists when playing their music
live. Most often attending an experimental electronic music show is to also
witness the hard work of a video artists or real-time video improviser. The
images and the music have become nearly one and the same with digital
alterations being treated to audio and video alike. This documentary will
include many of the videos that have been used by performers to illustrate
their music, as well as to document and demonstrate the concepts running in
parallel between the two disciplines.
It is also very important that this video documentary is itself an
experimental document, composed of interviews, real-world footage and
processed digital video. To aid in this experiment, several of the world?s
best real-time video improvisers have volunteered to work on the project.
Their collaboration on this project is essential to the understanding of the
music. Each artist will be given footage and interview files to use to
create their various sections of the documentary. Then after a rough-cut of
the project is completed, each artist will again be invited to make more
subtle digital alterations to certain sections of the documentary. This
will make the project itself an original document as well as a re-mix.
At this point I project that the length of this documentary will be an hour,
considering how many interviews I have completed and have to complete. I
expect that this project will ultimately be presented as a video for
screenings and distribution.
Ok, if anyone is interested in helping please get in touch.
Donna Summer
donnasummer@cockrockdisco.com
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