Inspired by space music electronica from the 1950's this new track by Pim Zond is atmospheric and ambient in the tradition of Bebe and Louis Barron and the science fiction movie The Forbidden Planet. Full length, high quality music download available on iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp.com , etc. Original content (c) 2015 All Rights Reserved (Video loop only courtesy of Motionloops.com. Used with permission.) Music "Dreams of Bebe" by Pim Zond (iTunes)
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Retro Electronic Music | Dreams of Bebe - Pim Zond
Inspired by space music electronica from the 1950's this new track by Pim Zond is atmospheric and ambient in the tradition of Bebe and Louis Barron and the science fiction movie The Forbidden Planet. Full length, high quality music download available on iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp.com , etc. Original content (c) 2015 All Rights Reserved (Video loop only courtesy of Motionloops.com. Used with permission.) Music "Dreams of Bebe" by Pim Zond (iTunes)
Microcinema
A Look Into Microcinema
by Perry Mark Stratychuk
The
continuing move to drive all content into the world-wide web use is the
standard of a much broader movement often called the Microcinema
movement. Microcinema in promises a communal cinema experience, making,
showing films with virtually no stars, and limited or no budgets.
Due
to very low or no overhead whatsoever, and a markedly different or
absent business model. Microcinemas are capable of bringing truly
underground, risk-taking producetions to the viewing audience, whether
on a large LCD projector or a LCD cel phone screen, regardless of
commercial viability. But still, they receive little or no local press
and certainly no national coverage.
As important as the original film co-ops and art-houses were in the development of independent film, particularly during the 60's and 70's, there is still no comprehensive collection of microcinema sources available. Only on web-sites like www.FreeMovieMakingGuide.com and a handful of others.
Microcinema International has a database of programs, and several other webrings and lists are crawled everyday. There is now more emphasis on exhibition-based events, web-based platforms, education and digital and physical distribution, than on creating microcinema content that the general viewer would want to watch.
As important as the original film co-ops and art-houses were in the development of independent film, particularly during the 60's and 70's, there is still no comprehensive collection of microcinema sources available. Only on web-sites like www.FreeMovieMakingGuide.com and a handful of others.
Microcinema International has a database of programs, and several other webrings and lists are crawled everyday. There is now more emphasis on exhibition-based events, web-based platforms, education and digital and physical distribution, than on creating microcinema content that the general viewer would want to watch.
Mobile
TV, video on demand, pod-casting, and mobile telephony are also used to
reach new audiences around the world. "The medium is the message," as
Marshall McLuhan once said.
The Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, has a catalogue of international DVD titles distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales systems around the globe. The more recent Salvador Dali Documentary is exclusively available from Microcinema DVD.
The Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, has a catalogue of international DVD titles distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales systems around the globe. The more recent Salvador Dali Documentary is exclusively available from Microcinema DVD.
What
the microcinema genre lacks in content variety glamor, is made up for
in its soon to be tapped potential for community building, such as a
casual social event.Youtube and other online video sites such as
Metacafe, Vimeo and Viddler, et al provide now quite common experiences
to watch independent film on more websites than ever imagined just a few
years ago.
In his Film Encyclopedia, Ephraim Katz defines an art house as "a theater specializing in the exhibition of quality films, either classic revivals or new films of limited box-office appeal " In this new context of microcinema appeal to the mainstream, "of limited box-office appeal" is quite striking, if not, perhaps, inaccurate. In the "little" films that gain wider acceptance, something has still been lost from the original art-house experience.
In his Film Encyclopedia, Ephraim Katz defines an art house as "a theater specializing in the exhibition of quality films, either classic revivals or new films of limited box-office appeal " In this new context of microcinema appeal to the mainstream, "of limited box-office appeal" is quite striking, if not, perhaps, inaccurate. In the "little" films that gain wider acceptance, something has still been lost from the original art-house experience.
The
sense of adventure and discovery has waned even more as films of
broader appeal attract audiences less interested in film art and more
interested in art trendiness. Second, with the continuing growth of
home-entertainment systems, the living room threatens to rival smaller
theatrical experiences, with the additional attraction of the private,
customized experience that has become more and more affordable.
One-night
theaters have spread across a wide range of communities and take up
residence not only in actual movie theaters, but also in alternative
spaces like tractor trailers, cafes, bars, church basements, health
clubs and of course our own home basements. We come because we crave a
new moviemaking experience, of any sort, or simply like the attraction
of novelty as in the early days of theater and vaudeville, even if we
end up watching our old flat panel TV screen.
Originally published as "Microcinema Under My Skin" in 2013
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Perry Mark Stratychuk - Independent Filmmaker: Films and Videos
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Monday, May 12, 2014
The Radiophonic Workshop
The Importance of the Radiophonic Workshop to Electronic Music in the UK
Electronic music has infiltrated many music genres nowadays. From folk to classical via pop and dance music, music technology is now considered part of the mainstream musical cultures and markets.
This image is of a screencap from the documentary Doctor Who: Origins, it is intended for use in the article "Delia Derbyshire" to visually aid and provide critical commentary in describing the subject of the article. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] There was a time however when electronic music was an interest of the few, and considered rather experimental and otherworldly. And early developments of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop helped to integrate music technology into radio, TV and music.
Documentaries and interviews that have been conducted about the Radiophonic Workshop elude to it being made of up of a small team of audio engineers and composers. We are often given the impression that they worked quite autonomously, providing sound effects, soundtracks and television and radio programme theme tunes. And they used quite creative and novel methods and approaches to do so.
Let's take the iconic Doctor Who theme tune for example. The score was composed by Ron Grainer and it was largely realised by Radiophonic workshop team member Delia Derbyshire, using very experimental musical techniques. She had no such thing as a multi-track mixing console or a sequencing software like we have today. She apparently used two or three reel to reel tape machines and synchronised them together to make the infamous melody. This is commendable enough, but then there each note was also carefully synthesised and she also used a lot of musique concrete measures ie. Found sounds.
This theme tune has been largely left intact almost 50 years later. The Radiophonic workshop team provided a number of ethereal, otherworldly and downright strange sound for the BBC from the 1960's and some of the members such as Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram were experimental electronic composers in their own right.
Cover of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
This somewhat obscure element in the corridors of Broadcasting House must have had an influence as it was transmitted through people television screens and radios. So electronic music became a creative and possibly inexpensive method of providing sound design - huge orchestras were not needed and one person could make a variety of outcomes with only a few found sounds as the sounds could be manipulated in manifold ways if you knew how.
There seems to have been an increase of interest and attention paid to the careers and achievements of Radiophonic staff who produced both technically innovative and creative music. Delia Derbyshire seems to receiving more acknowledgement for her work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and she was making techno music in the 1960's.
And founder of the Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram's amazing Oramics machine was the centre of an exhibition about the development of electronic music at the Science Museum in London. These early examples of women in electronic music have become icons in the history of technological music and are still often cited as influences for many electronic music makers today. Caro is a studio recording engineer, producer and performer of electronic music. She writes an electronic music blog covering these topics and interests including women in electronic music. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Caro_Churchill
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