I got to see Cooper perform Water Wrackets live with the movie at the indie theater in town. It was intense. He's got more film collaboration work coming up in 2012. http://vimeo.com/21068882
― Mr. Farmer, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh thanks for the heads up Mr. Farmer, I really would have loved to have seen him accompany the film.
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
these are all short experimental films, right? i'm interested in the divide between "score to short experimental film" and "music video" one definitely sounds fancier than the other, no?
― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't seem the same as the relationship between herzog and fricke, for instance (because that is what everything drifts to when i think about these things)
― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, you are right. Cooper has been collaborating with Olivia Wyatt on short experimental films. Some are animations. They are usually made independent of each other, as well. Like, Cooper will send Olivia some music and she'll make a film, or vice versa. I know that with Water Wrackets, Cooper composed all the music before ever seeing any film. He made it all during the big midwestern blizzard last winter, he said that music will always make him think of snow. Which is appropriate, I guess.
― Mr. Farmer, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
ok, then imo that is not a score -- a score takes into consideration what is happening with the images, and if the images haven't been seen yet, it's not a score? also wasn't water wrackets a remake of an older experimental film? maybe he saw the older one and knew it or something.
i dunno. i guess the visual element is a lovely accompaniment to the music, but in this case i don't really think about it the other way around. sort of like how watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster, but it's not like one was inspired by the other in any way. they're simply complementary pictures and sounds.
― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to clusterrecommended btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igkjcuw_n_Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdM5bzmZTY4
― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think of it as a score, either. Water Wrackets is a remake of a Peter Greenaway film. I'm not one hundred percent sure of the creative processes that went into the making of the project or the chronology in which they unfolded. I'm not trying to put words into Cooper's mouth. Sorry!
Anyway...I love pairing music with film regardless of the intentions of either author. I wholeheartedly agree with your last comment and do stuff like that a lot. Like, I know Stan Brakhage intended for his films to be watched in a silent dark room, but they work so well with Circle (or whatever) playing at the same time!
― Mr. Farmer, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Claps - Wreck
super amazing synth pop from mpls, riyl human league, older OMD...vinyl is sweet, clear icy blue vinyl
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
xp - ooh good rec! will do!!
― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
claps myspace
http://www.myspace.com/clapsus
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Staple Singers 1962 Xmas album
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
*pedant alert*
watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster
time-lapse animation /= stop motion animation
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
(claps album produced by ryan olcott of 12 rods if that piques anyone's interest)
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
! family grapevine has failed me again
― aesthetic partisan (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I am listening to one of my Spotify playlists:
http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/2JSosmzA72ClTGzNryqTa8
currently on "Back To Life" - Soul II Soul
― OH NOES, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/track/2Vmx2DvAcNmixJT55KHXzT
REQUIRED LISTENING FOR EVERYONE
― OH NOES, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, that's what I meant -- time lapse. I couldn't remember the right name and also my brain is made of cheese.
― league of women voters, Monday, 19 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqbLGHqsTg&ob=av2e
― rob (night house), Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Cheap vinyls scored during recent Berlin sojourn. Something about finding good stuff while digging in an open air flea market in the pouring rain:
YOU - timecodeVanity Records Finest selection compTangerine Dream "Tatort" maxi singleNeue dimensionen compBruce Gilbert "Monad" 7"
― Jay To The Vee Ee Eee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Big Star - #1 Album and Radio City is about to start.This is my kind of Christmas music tbh
― Mr. Farmer, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not saying it's the greatest song in the world, but it could have been on a Superchunk/Butterglory/Sammy/Sebadoh/etc. album or something pretty easily, and the video is very cute. Inspiring a lot of 90's nostalgia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YySA6iYWuRY
― dlp2917, Thursday, 22 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Polica - Give You The Ghost
some friends of mine's band...with a little luck ilm should be either loving them or hating them by year's end, seem to have a lot of buzz going
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Vanity Records Finest selection comp
wow
― sleeve sandbox, Thursday, 22 December 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to more of the ILM track nominations: for fuck's sake, 80s revival, DIE!
― I'm turning this off the minute I don't like it (Occidental Rudipherous), Friday, 23 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5IvEPCzahc
― Occidental Rudipherous, Friday, 23 December 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
thelonious monk's alone in san francisco, while reading a biography of his (interesting note: he apparently popularizd a seventh chord where you just play the root and the seventh, creating a dissonant sound).
also, this jazz piano trio album; not a genre i'm normally into, but there's an emotional heft to this (or at least that's what i'm hearing) that drawing me to it.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 26 December 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh speed darlingtonpawshttp://nignoramus.tumblr.com/post/14088613439/atlced-roland-lmao-speed-darlington-badVERY NSFW
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
indie guitar bands with a wobbly-voiced singers are not the sort of thing i normally listen to, but over the last couple of months i've slowly become obsessed with Fukurouzu from Tokyo.This song is called Mashumaro which translates as ... Marshmallow!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yunzN3aZyo4
― zappi, Monday, 26 December 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
never really stopped listening to it tbh buy hey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-od12FUfE
― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
(should be "the rrabbitt" - the guy who posted it sucks at entering basic metadata)
― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
BURN
Slave, ShowtimeSlave, Just a Touch of LoveYou, Electric DaysCave, "On the Rise"
...now am slowly working my way thru Primordial Undermind's Beings of Game P-U
― tanuki suit, frogbs suit (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
trying to remember new discoveries and favorites for this year and put on alex de grassi, turning back, which i bought in perfect condition for a dollar.
how could it not be good with this cover?!
http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/a/alex-de-grassi/1769572-alex-de-grassi-turning-turning-back.jpg
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
this guy is a maniac!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fjAGM2cAE
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Been listening to the Dead. A lot.
Cooper was just in town, there is a Bitchin Bajas European tour in the works for next year as well as another music+visuals thing at the local indie theater that they are gonna do in Quadrophonic sound! The same guys that put out Water Wrackets are putting out the collaboration with Olivia Wyatt some time next year in an lp+dvd package.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
do they do events like that in chicago? i'm not really involved with the "let's play at this makeshift space" types of shows here -- maybe they do this all the time, i have no idea. euro tour sounds a little more exciting though, i'd imagine.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
It seems like they do things like that every once in a while, but I'm really not sure. Cave is going on an Australian tour next year, as well. That is pretty exciting. Not quite as exciting as going to Japan with Thurston Moore (which is what another ex-band mate of mine, from a different band, is doing next year). I have to admit, I'm glad that my former bandmates, who actually possess some talent and skill, are moving on to bigger and better things in that realm.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
...while I become a music librarian, something I am much better prepared for.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
who's going to Japan? that's awesome.
― Z S, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
Keith W00d, he's in the band. It's fucking wild seeing him on like Letterman and Fallon with Thurston Moore.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
But anyway, right now I'm listening to the excellent Disco Zombies anthology "Drums Over London."
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, this is why I respect Eric Bachmann and his Cuban sandwich truck. I'm not sure if he's still doing that or not, but regardless there's no shame in working for a living.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Oh certainly! I am glad that I can live vicariously through their rocker exploits, I've never been cut out for life on the road. I really don't envy the pro-musician lifestyle...much.
And the thought that I will have my degree at the end of 2012 fills me with joyful anticipation. There's nothing I'd rather do than sit in a room full of records all day.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
do u need an intern
[anyway, listening to this numero boddie recording co. box set thing my wife got me for xmas. cool stuff! the gospel stuff is kind of disconcertingly sexy.]
― tylerw_sandbox, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
ha, i bought that for my husband for christmas, and you are not him! i've been enjoying that too. esp. proud of cleveland when i heard it tbh.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
it's the ultimate husband box set. it is fun, i've only listened to the first disc. kind of mystified/amazed by numero group -- such tlc for these ultra-obscure labels/artists. how do they do it? do they have a millionaire bankrolling the whole thing?
― tylerw_sandbox, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
did you get the LPs? i think i liked the 2nd or 3rd one best. it all kind of blurs together after a while. the song about getting high on jesus is pretty great. there was an awesome track called "don't make me kill you" too. i haven't sat down to read/listen very intently -- the books are super crammed with info.
as for the business model, i always just figured that they have high standards, are savvy w/r/t marketing to the people who will actually purchase their product, and aren't particularly cheap.
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yerba Brava - Cumbia Villera
― Occidental Rudipherous, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://mindovermirrors.tumblr.com/listen
harmonium player/electronicist jaime fennelly -- i have no idea if he is already well known or not, but he was the only musician i wasn't familiar with in the ensemble thing i saw last night. and he totally ruled.
― league of women voters, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link