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Silent Summer Nights 6
5 September 2006 | miscellaneous, music, movies | 1 Response
Saturday & Sunday night it was my pleasure to volunteer for Silent Summer Nights at Grandview Park on Commercial Drive. SSN is a really neat project co-produced by the Eye of Newt collective, Radix Theatre & Rumble Productions. Each year they get together & present silent movies in the park, accompanied by live orchestras.
Saturday’s features were two Chinese animated films: ‘Three Monks’ and, um, something slightly longer about dragons. Both were very nice, but I think I liked 3 Monks best because it was really cute. Both movies were accompanied by the Orchid Ensemble, an incredible blend of experimental jazz & traditional Chinese music. Their music blended so well that I soon forgot they were even there. Amazing.
Sunday’s film was Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic Metropolis, accompanied by the ‘Monster Orchestra’, a 30-person collaboration of three orchestras (NOW orchestra, Eye of Newt & Orchid Ensemble), simultaneously conducted by all three conductors. The music that emerged was pretty amazing. It was like experimental jazz improv meets, uh, experimental orchestral music? Seriously, I dunno what you would call it, but it was pretty awesome. It didn’t feel like the music was very attuned to the film, especially since the conductors were most often standing with their backs to the screen, occasionally glancing over their shoulder for inspiration. Still, there were some pretty magical moments.
Here’s a brief audio snippet from Sunday night that I recorded on my phone. It’s pretty terrible quality, but it might give you a sense of what it was like from my vantage point, behind the band at the ‘box office’ (more like a box than an office, really). Enjoy!
Tags: jazz, theatre, vancouverCovering coverville
30 August 2006 | music, elsewhere, athousandtimesno | No Responses
I also think we should cover the coverville theme song. I know it's already a cover, but what the heck, it'd be fun anyway.
I like big blogs and I cannot lie
30 August 2006 | music, elsewhere, athousandtimesno | No Responses
Everyone's favorite closet wonderband athousandtimesno has recently been asked to compose, perform & record the music for an album of web2.0-related songs to be written by our pal, Rob Cottingham.
(Special note to Evan: Rob asked if we want to compose, perform & record the music for an album of web2.0-related songs he wants to write. Whaddya think?)
Obviously, we're in. (Special note to Evan: we're in, right?) Stay tune!
A great article for music lovers
22 August 2006 | miscellaneous, music | No Responses
It’s going to be old news to some, but I found a great article tonight as I was cruising around. Grant Robertson at The Digital Music Weblog put together a fantastic list of decent online music sites/labels/bands. Not only is this a radical intro to Magnatune & the Creative Commons set — it’s also an inspiring run-down of how online music distribution can (and should) work. Check it out!!
Tags: DRM, IndieMusic, musicThe new site
14 July 2006 | music, elsewhere, athousandtimesno | No Responses
Well, I’m proud to say that I’m ashamed to say that after 23 weeks 1 day the website is finally sort of good enough to be pretty okay enough to show people. So, feast your eyes! Have a look around! And when you find the broken things, think of them as tiny secret treasures that nobody wants to hear about. Huzzah!
Tags: athousandtimesno, musicThe new site
14 July 2006 | music, elsewhere, athousandtimesno | No Responses
Well, I'm proud to say that I'm ashamed to say that after 23 weeks 1 day the website is finally sort of good enough to be pretty okay enough to show people. So, feast your eyes! Have a look around! And when you find the broken things, think of them as tiny secret treasures that nobody wants to hear about.
Huzzah! What the heck took so long? It's definitely me. I'm not lazy. I worked so hard on it. Still, it took forever. And ever. And ever. (Well, I'm sure I don't have to tell you, dear reader — you're the one who's been waiting.) It's still not what I/we want it to be, but Evan finally threatened to beat the crap out of me with laser sticks if I/we didn't get it done. So, at long last, we lift the veil on the treasuredome! Welcome to athousandtimesno.com: the future of our website.
