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8mm video with music by Dem Suite

connor — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:30:48 +0000

Filmaker, Dalton Rooney, shot and directed this video on 8mm film entitled “Spare a Quarter” back in 2007. For the music here, we gave him a beat we had lying around in infancy at the time. I don’t remember ever seeing the finished film until now. I totally forgot about this project, and here two years later, it was found and brought to my attention. Now, the beat is actually a song with lyrics and more shit called, “Ecliptic” and should probably be on our next Dem Suite record. I love the grittiness of the 8mm film, reminds me a little bit of the Arnofosky movie π, one my college favorites. This whole project is somewhat inspiring to me to try and reach out to more filmmakers and offer to do music. Although this was just a beat thrown over the top of a nice little film, its still cool and I’d definitely like to attempt to compose a piece or several pieces of music specifically for a film in the future.

Arp Shifter – a monome video

connor — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:40:55 +0000

This great new application, ArpShift, just came out of the monome community. I thought it was so great I made a video the first night I started playing with it. Check it out:

Piano collaboration with seeyouinsleep

connor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:18:58 +0000

Fellow monome community member, seeyouinsleep, asked for a video of some sparse acoustic piano playing for a generative music processing piece he wanted to do using Ableton Live. So i sent him a very mellow video of me playing upright piano in our studio. The piece is a chilled out interpretation of a tune Elliott and I are working on for the next album. Check out the result:

http://www.seeyouinsleep.com/blog/2009/8/5/generative-processing-video-colab-with-piano-from-dem-suite.html

Radiohead – Reckoner (Dem Suite Remix)

connor — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:30:36 +0000

This is a video of a remix performance of Radiohead’s “Reckoner” from In Rainbows that I’ve been working out on the monome for a while now. I’m using my monome 64 running mlrV to chop and sequence each track/loop. The black monome 40h I built with ultraviolet (UV) LEDs is running vu scroll (a scrolling VU meter app) which is picking up the sound in the studio from the laptop’s built-in mic. All of the audio was recorded and mixed down in Ableton Live 8. I used my laptop’s iSight and a small Sony for the video. I used Adobe Premier Pro CS4 to edit the video (it was my first time using Premier Pro for a project).

Download the MP3 here: http://www.demsuite.com/audio/reckoner_remix.mp3

Thanks go out to Radiohead for providing the stems of their music and especially monome.org and the monome community for its collective genius and overall awesomeness!

on vimeo too: http://vimeo.com/5948795

[video] DRT YRT – First Morning

connor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:10:38 +0000

DRT YRT – First Morning from Trazmick on Vimeo.

Video from the making of the DRT YRT album, Sounds From Unknown Animals.

This is a monome 64 running Stretta’s Polygome App. Polygome is triggering a recording of Elliott’s vocal which was “sliced to MIDI” in Ableton Live 8.

This is a take that did not make the album.

do right woman

connor — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:24:03 +0000

otto mobile and the moaners played friday night at the velo rouge cafe. i brought along my video camera to record a some video for analysis and ended up capturing elliott’s stirring performance of “do right woman”. it was the first time we performed this song and it definitely won’t be the last.

x0xb0x time lapse video

connor — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:41:06 +0000

a time-lapsed video i produced of davidnin building his self-sourced x0xb0x. 9,505 images @ 60 frames per second. the music is a video edit of the dem suite track “poly back” that features my x0xb0x that he also built for me – x0x #555. im hoping a version of this track will make the next record. it just needs some vocals from elliott.

building a x0xb0x / dem suite – “poly back” from Trazmick on Vimeo.