Great thoughts on the ipod, friends. What I haven't taken away from this is a few things.
1. I need a lawn to mow (or some heavy machinery to drive) because that is a place where ipod bliss is necessary/delightful.
2. There is the phoneomena of the quiet listening nook; a place that headphones have created. This place is a unique music venue where nuance and autonomy can be in conjunctive marriage. I once saw Bjork on Charlie Rose in 2001 at the release of Vespertine which she described designing as a digital album; to inhabit that quiet and secret place wooed by sonic waves. I ran into a guy the other day who told me that the new Animal Collective album was amazing. He explained his day lounging at Puget Sound listening to the work in totality. "It's definitely a headphone album" he tells me.
So Blogotheque, a French music blog, puts out this phenomenal set of documents done by a masterful film director Vincent Moon in the moniker Les Concerts A Emporter (Take Away Shows). Moon meets great musicians in various cities and in various situations. In seemingly single take shots they are captured singing a couple songs. The spatial arrangement is always beautiful and the way the musicians are taken out of typical context is fascinating. Subscribe and enjoy...on your ipod of course!
Here are few of my favorites:
The Dirty Projectors
My Brightest Diamond
Beirut
1. I need a lawn to mow (or some heavy machinery to drive) because that is a place where ipod bliss is necessary/delightful.
2. There is the phoneomena of the quiet listening nook; a place that headphones have created. This place is a unique music venue where nuance and autonomy can be in conjunctive marriage. I once saw Bjork on Charlie Rose in 2001 at the release of Vespertine which she described designing as a digital album; to inhabit that quiet and secret place wooed by sonic waves. I ran into a guy the other day who told me that the new Animal Collective album was amazing. He explained his day lounging at Puget Sound listening to the work in totality. "It's definitely a headphone album" he tells me.
So Blogotheque, a French music blog, puts out this phenomenal set of documents done by a masterful film director Vincent Moon in the moniker Les Concerts A Emporter (Take Away Shows). Moon meets great musicians in various cities and in various situations. In seemingly single take shots they are captured singing a couple songs. The spatial arrangement is always beautiful and the way the musicians are taken out of typical context is fascinating. Subscribe and enjoy...on your ipod of course!
Here are few of my favorites:
The Dirty Projectors
My Brightest Diamond
Beirut
both *my brightest diamond* bits are good, but the bottom one, an edith piaf cover, makes solomon crawl across the house to be closer to it. and then he sings. so. you know it's good.
I sat for about a halh hour pretty mesmarized by the site man. It's not been done before (at least in my estimation), and it's the most sincere format for a "music video" for the indie artist that I've yet seen. I'de like to shoot a video in a similar fashion...you game?
j
pretty wonderful, huh?
We can definitely swing something to the like!
Love these clips! Thanks so much.
Passed the link on to Matt Conner and Rob Alan, who fronted that SSv site some are contributing to.
zb - thanks for turning me on to this site. very cool. elliott and I enjoyed several tracks. we've been stimulating our creativity today. spent some part of the morning working on our watercolors.
stu