Arcade Fire continues to push interactive videos with their newest Google Chrome experiment: The Wilderness Downtown. Its an interactive film by Chris Milk featuring “We Used To Wait” all built in HTML5.
The Wilderness Machine A postcard is created by an analog signal: you. This site takes that postcard and converts it to digital. The Wilderness Machine brings it back to analog. Look for it on tour with the band in North America. If you’re lucky enough to get someone’s postcard from it, plant it. A tree will grow out of it.
Director Carl Burgess pulled a bunch of stock footage from the Getty Image archives for Ratatat‘s new video, Drugs. Definitely some creepy footage in there, but mesmerizing none the less.
Marco Brambilla, who brought you Civilization, has teamed up with Kanye West for his new video ‘Power.’ The music video is a surreal video portrait of Kanye.
Director Marco Brambilla speaking to Vulture:
So what exactly is the piece?
Well, it’s a video portrait of Kanye. It starts with a very tight shot introducing him that’s kind of a reinvention of a neoclassical painting. It pulls back from the shot, without any cuts, and we reveal the video canvas, populated by all these characters who are depicted in various stages of undress and decadence. The iconography comes from Roman iconography, Renaissance iconography, and it connects to the sexuality of the music as well. As we reveal the setting for it, there’s a feeling of a moment of transition for him. A fall from grace, if you will. It visualizes power, and him as the icon as power, and then at the end of the piece it challenges the power that I set up at the beginning. It’s an elliptical piece of storytelling.
How did you guys end up using that kind of imagery?
He approached me via my gallery and he wanted to do something that wasn’t a music video. He wanted a video work that would accompany the music. I said, “That’s great, because I don’t do music videos.” I wanted to give it an epic feeling. The song feels very personal, but the orchestration and the production of the track is epic and I wanted to give it something hypersensational and exaggerated.
The Chemical Brothers’ latest effort, Further, pulses with sonic undulations. They’re all quite hypnotically transmitted in the video for the group’s newest single, “Another World,” out Aug. 17 on download and Sept. 28 on vinyl.
Singer Patrice just released the music video for his single Ain’t Got No (I Got Life), a cover of an original song by Nina Simone. The music video includes naked people dancing by firelight to an animated singing set of speakers featuring the artistry of French photographer, JR. [via Juxtapoz.]
Canadian Heavy Metal band Hail the Villain has launched its album, Population: Declining, with a pretty nice interactive site created by Grand Creative. They put together a seedy little understory for their site with some nice webcam interactivity as well.
Read the full article on Black Yogurt.
And visit their official site here.
Beck has started a side project called Record Club. Here’s a quote from the site:
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.
The first track I heard sounds pretty good. Take a listen and check out the rest of the album here.
Last night, Ben Folds played “Ode to Merton” before a live audience. It was inspired by the improv piano player “Merton” who knows he sounds like Ben Folds, but is not Ben Folds.
Read the Mashable article here, or view the original Merton video below. [Thanks Ron.]
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