Evo in Academia

Takers of the British Journal of Music Education doi:10.1017/S0265051707007401
Published online by Cambridge University Press 04Jun2007 Volume 24 will have already spotted a passing reference to my short film Evo in the paper entitled Music analysis down the (You) tube? Exploring the potential of cross-media listening for the music classroom by Michael Webb.

You can read the abstract here, though you'll need to be a subscriber or buy the paper to see the Evo bit.

Evo's Spanish Evenings

Evo is to get a showing in Santiago de Compostela's Curtocircuíto Na Rúa Festival. Outdoor screenings will take place in the historic squares of the old town during the evenings of July and August. More details will surely be culled from the Curtocircuíto festival website when the programme is announced.

Domains For Sale

I've just put 4 domains up for sale over at www.sedo.com (the online marketplace for the buying and selling of domains.)

16x9.tv
sourcepix.com
buyoutmedia.com
buyoutmedia.co.uk

Colorblind Revival

Just re-discovered some fave sounds from the late80s / early90s. 'The Colorblind James Experience' from Rochester NY were a mad collective of jug-band americana featuring the deadpan-est frontman of all; Colorblind James (the stagename of the late and great James Charles Cuminale). A couple of band members have started a blog which includes 3 great podcasts 1 2 3 showcasing their unique sound and attitude. I saw them live at Hull's Adelphi club during college times; still worth checking-out after all these years...

Enriched Word Power

It was beyond being about time I updated The Randomizer section of my website , so that's just what I've done over the last week or so. First-off I've updated the code to publish better under newer versions of Flash (some of my ActionScript was deprecated code apparently). I then set-about refreshing the word-banks used by the Poematic poetry generator: the vocabulary has been expanded now to 700 nouns, 80 proper nouns, 106 adjectives, 204 verbs, 143 adverbs and 23 connectives.
I've added a few more pre-scripted texts and a few more movie clips too. I've included a few archival animation tests and even included a couple of mobile phone shots.

That New Evo Sound

The 2007 re-release of Evo; featuring the all-new Earodynamics sound design can be seen here. I'm getting together another batch of festival applications to mark the occasion...

Big In Berlin

The curators at Berlin-based arts and culture magazine Sleek have chosen my shortfilm Evo for their growing online "Art in Motion" archive. (If you choose to follow this link, you'll need to scroll down their page a bit to see 'Evo'.)

Video: 'Pin Disco'

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The very night before last week's deadline I decided to submit an entry for Channel E4's E-stings competition. I reached for those pins again and chose one of their quirkier electronica soundtracks to work to ... it's a seven second ident for E4 Music Channel; I called it 'Pin Disco'.

Busy-ness

At Tandem we've finished the 13 idents I was directing/compositing on for Focus (The nationwide D.I.Y. retailer.) Since then there's also been compositing work to do on some Idents for Ribena to show during ad-breaks in ITV's "Grease Is The Word" show on Saturday evenings. The studio has kept pretty busy for a good while now. The Tandem blog is definitely worth a look.

Video: 'PinFolkTest_001'

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Here's a wee test.